Quotes by Walter Lippmann with democracy

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

  • 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.
  • Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
  • Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
    ― Walter Lippmann
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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.''
    ― Walter Lippmann
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