Quotes by Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann

American writer, reporter, and political commentator

Lived from: 1889 - 1974

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 23 september 1889 Died: 14 december 1974

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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.
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  • The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. 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.
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  • The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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  • The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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  • The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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  • 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.
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  • The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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  • The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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  • The subtlest and most pervasive of influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of sterotypes.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
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  • This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
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  • Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: ''I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.''
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  • Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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