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Walter Lippmann
The ordinary politician...
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with...
This is one...
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement --that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose...
The senator might...
The senator might remember that the Evangelists had a more inspiring subject.
We forge gradually...
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world --introspection. We discover that humanity may...
The press is...
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about,...
There is nothing...
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized...
We are all...
We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that...
Unless democracy is...
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable...
When distant and...
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a...
The principle of...
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific...
We forge gradually...
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world --introspection. We discover that humanity may...
When philosophers try...
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Unless the reformer...
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will...
When men can...
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
The simple opposition...
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so...
Whether we wish...
Whether we wish it our not we are involved in the world's problems, and all the winds of heaven blow through our...
Where all men...
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Source:
-- Walter Lippmann,...
You cannot endow...
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative. The jolliest steam-roller will not plant...
Where mass opinion...
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The...
The writers who...
The writers who have nothing to say are the ones you can buy; the others have too high a...