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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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  • The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
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  • A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
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  • In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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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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  • When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
    ― Walter Lippmann
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  • Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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What are the most famous quotes from Walter Lippmann?

The two most famous quotes from Walter Lippmann are:

  • "The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary."
  • "A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment."

When did Walter Lippmann live?

Walter Lippmann was born in 1889 and died in the year 1974.