Walter Lippmann quotes - page 6

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good. (Walter Lippmann)
Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward. View quote
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The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash. View quote
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The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself. View quote
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Even God has been defended with nonsense. View quote
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A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator. View quote
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Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. View quote
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The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. View quote
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The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples. View quote
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We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones. View quote
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No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow. (Walter Lippmann)
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. . . View quote
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Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage it is useless to expect solutions in a political compaign. View quote
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In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. View quote
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Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The de. View quote
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Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City. View quote
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