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Walter Lippmann Quotes
«The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence»
«We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men»
«When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic. . .»
«Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
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«Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no-one says exactly what he thinks.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, . . . it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges. . .»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)