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Walter Lippmann Quotes
«The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)