The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.


the New York Star, 9 January 1949

Max Lerner Quotes

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to ...

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to ...

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to ...

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to ...