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Walter Lippmann Quotes
American
-
Journalist
September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
Men
Think
Where
Very
Alike
Thinks
Much
No-One
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
Business
Men
Will
Behind
Carry
Conviction
Final
Leader
Leaves
Test
He
Him
Other
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
Grace
Situation
Behind
Common
Common Sense
Deal
Genius
Good Leader
Leader
Leave
Sense
Successfully
Him
Which
Without
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
Wisdom
Music
Nothing
Deaf
Understand
Audience
Requires
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
Rich
Enough
Must
Need
Cost
Defend
Educate
Educated
Learn
Ourselves
Quite
Whatever
Now
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
Stars
Human
Atoms
Belief
Contingent
Forces
Human Heart
Lies
Modern
Modern Science
Move
Novelty
Precisely
Preferences
Radical
Rejection
Which
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
Walter Lippmann
You
Know
Republican
Brains
Party
Republican Party
Suspect
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Walter Lippmann
You
Political
Like
Human
Balloon
Beings
Beliefs
Biographies
Determined
Human Beings
Logically
Notion
Once
Political Beliefs
Touch
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
Ancient
Centuries
Civilized
Discovery
Exist
Flourishing
Help
Human Soul
Societies
Solving
Somehow
Though
Traveler
Being
Had
Human
Many
Still
Which
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Walter Lippmann
Ride
Better
Genius
Horse
Industry
Than
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
Men
Who
Being
Young
Danger
Lives
Middle-Aged
Orthodox
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter Lippmann
Good
Always
Like
More
Fervent
Human Being
Indispensable
Learns
Opposition
Sensible
Statesman
Supporters
Any
Being
His
Human
Other
Than
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Walter Lippmann
Freedom
Effort
Men
Most
Authority
Brings
Consoling
Economy
Preferred
After
Little
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann
Honor
Dangerous
He
Himself
Conduct
Holds
Ideal
Inconvenient
Though
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Walter Lippmann
Understanding
Possible
Which
Ideals
Desirable
Imaginative
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
Honor
Dangerous
He
Conduct
Himself
Holds
Ideal
Inconvenient
Though
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
Men
Think
Very
Thinks
Alike
Much
No-One
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Walter Lippmann
People
Democracy
Will
Make
Amount
Ballots
Direct
Illiterate
Short
Out
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Walter Lippmann
Time
Stop
Find
Talking
Believed
Many
Out
Really
Wanted
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
Belief
Head
Exists
Experienced
Our
Really
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
New
Conscience
Condition
Eternal
Grows
Means
Radical
Radical Change
Social
Social Life
Vessel
Our
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Walter Lippmann
Power
Only
First
Contract
Civilized
Legitimate
Principle
State
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann
Best
Fool
People
King
Afford
Court
Ear
Foolish
Least
Lose
Master
Servants
Truths
Unpleasant
Unpleasant Truths
Whisper
Whom
Like
Must
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
Temptation
Sin
Arguing
Divine
Mission
Perennial
Possessed
Pretenders
Yielded
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
Best
Government
True
Most
Equally
Governs
Least
Perfectly
Provides
Which
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann
Men
Must
Become
Civilized
Longer
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter Lippmann
Great
America
Adventure
Wilderness
Absorb
Conquest
Fifty
Longer
Social
Different
People
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, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann
Truth
Simple
Great
People
Absolute
Complex
Considerable
Distant
Distortion
Dogmatic
Great Masses
Hypothetical
Masses
Often
Radical
Relative
Suffers
Unfamiliar
Made
Over
Things
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Walter Lippmann
Freedom
Property
Still
Source
Ballpark
Main
Original
Private
Private Property
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.
Walter Lippmann
Must
He
Cannot
Insight
Ages
Custom
Moralist
Necessarily
Preach
Prophecy
Rather
Reveal
Revealed
Seek
Taught
Teach
Unsettled
Than
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.
Walter Lippmann
Passion
Government
Men
Political
Constituents
Court
Effect
Lives
Mass
Office
Offices
Perpetual
Public
Required
Restless
Seekers
Sensitive
Sentiment
Sure
Tenure
Trial
Always
Which
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
Nature
Good
Intelligence
Will
Appeals
Citizen
Compliment
Evidence
Good Nature
Imposition
Insult
Loan
Opinion
Partisan
Perhaps
Private
Private Citizen
Public
Public Opinion
Sense
Soon
His
See
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
Purpose
Only
Compose
Consciousness
Fortify
Mightier
Souls
Worthy
Any
Than
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
People
Being
Young
Danger
Lives
Middle-Aged
Orthodox
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Walter Lippmann
Life
Me
Long
Space
Air
Convinced
Head
Journalism
Journalist
Large
Long Life
Presidents
State
Between
Many
Should
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
Simple
Business
People
Big
Big Business
Deeply
Disappeared
Involved
Opposition
Themselves
Because
Become
Between
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
Mind
Casual
Make
Out
Class
Pick
Prejudices
Representative
Sample
Stumble
Supports
Tendency
Then
Which
Whole
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
Stop
Stone
Illusion
Against
Appointed
Beating
Heads
Human Race
Policeman
Race
Walls
Been
Come
Human
Our
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Walter Lippmann
Politicians
Try
Philosophers
Cease
Generally
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
Society
Men
Free
Administer
Affairs
Among
Conduct
Free Society
State
Does
Own
Who
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
Ignore
Weak
Social
Fail
Instruments
Irrelevant
Movements
Once
Social Movements
Statesmanship
Symptoms
Use
Them
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
Walter Lippmann
Success
Effort
Men
Tired
Conservatism
Exalt
Fanatics
Rigid
Stability
Tend
Virtues
Willing
About
Become
Makes
Other
Over
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
Society
Always
Down
Minority
Call
Certain
Defined
Democratic
Democratic Society
Majority
Might
Prepared
Purposes
Revolutionary
Put
Which
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
Walter Lippmann
Truth
Only
Introduction
Degree
Error
Highest
Highest Degree
Serve
Stimulating
Study
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Walter Lippmann
Will
He
Something
Attractive
Fail
Invent
Reformer
Substitutes
Unless
Vices
Virtues
Which
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