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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  • 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.
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