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Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
American Journalist
Born: Sep 23, 1889
Died: Dec 14, 1974
Become Good Men People Radical Will
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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. Walter Lippmann
World Picture Our Head Exists Experienced Really Belief
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann
Men Think Alike No-One Very Where Much Thinks
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. Walter Lippmann
Try Politicians Philosophers Generally Cease
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. Walter Lippmann
Life Change Radical Our New Condition Vessel Eternal Social Means Social Life Radical Change Conscience Grows
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. Walter Lippmann
You Party Know Brains Suspect Republican Republican Party
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. Walter Lippmann
Class Mind Stumble Out Tendency Casual Pick Supports Make Representative Sample Which Then Prejudices Whole
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. Walter Lippmann
Whatever Rich Enough Ourselves Must Cost Learn Educate Educated Quite Now Defend Need
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. Walter Lippmann
Good Nature Intelligence Loan Will Citizen Sense Evidence Good Nature Compliment See Soon Perhaps Partisan Insult Opinion Private Private Citizen His Imposition Public Public Opinion Appeals
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. Walter Lippmann
Business People Simple Big Become Disappeared Between Involved Because Big Business Opposition Themselves Deeply
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. Walter Lippmann
Progress Symptoms Once Statesmanship Weak Fail Instruments Irrelevant Movements Social Them Use Ignore Social Movements
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann
Men Think Alike No-One Very Much Thinks
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. Walter Lippmann
Time Walls Illusion Our Beating Come Heads Policeman Been Stone Human Stop Against Race Human Race Appointed
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. Walter Lippmann
Man Dangerous Honor Though He Ideal Himself Conduct Holds Inconvenient
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. Walter Lippmann
Democracy People Will Out Direct Make Ballots Short Illiterate Amount
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. Walter Lippmann
Good Business Genius Grace Leader Situation Sense Good Leader Him Without Deal Leave Behind Common Which Common Sense Successfully
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. Walter Lippmann
Will Invent Unless Virtues Something He Fail Attractive Reformer Substitutes Vices Which
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. Walter Lippmann
Good Soul Problems Nothing Though Ancient Solving Somehow Civilized Had Still Exist Discovery Human Being Which Centuries Help Many Human Soul Traveler Societies Flourishing
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. Walter Lippmann
Freedom Men Consoling Economy Most Effort Authority After Little Preferred Brings
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. Walter Lippmann
Man Men Worthy Compose Only Purpose Souls Than Any Mightier Fortify Consciousness
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. Walter Lippmann
Knowledge Pride Possessed Pretenders Temptation Perennial Divine Arguing Sin Mission Yielded
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. Walter Lippmann
Minority Down Society Defined Purposes Put Democratic Majority Call Democratic Society Always Revolutionary Which Might Certain Prepared
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. Walter Lippmann
Government Best True Perfectly Most Equally Least Provides Governs Which
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. Walter Lippmann
Men Become Must Civilized Longer
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. Walter Lippmann
Justice Men Free Free Society Own Society State Administer Does Affairs Conduct Who Among
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. Walter Lippmann
Science Heart Atoms Human Heart Radical Stars Rejection Lies Forces Contingent Precisely Modern Move Human Modern Science Which Preferences Belief Novelty
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. Walter Lippmann
Power First State Only Civilized Principle Contract Legitimate
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