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Walter Lippmann Quotes
«What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.»
«There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
ballots, charter, chartered, charters, illiterate, primaries
«Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«Nobody has worked harder at inactivity with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
conscientious, detail, inactivity, unremitting
«There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
masquerade, masquerades, masquerading