Walter Lippmann
American writer, reporter, and political commentator
Lived from: 1889 - 1974
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States
Born: 23 september 1889 Died: 14 december 1974
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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.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
― Walter Lippmann
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