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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
— Walter Lippmann
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
— Walter Lippmann
It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.
— Walter Lippmann
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
— Walter Lippmann
The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.
— Walter Lippmann
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
— Walter Lippmann
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
— Walter Lippmann
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
— Walter Lippmann
"When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
— Walter Lippmann
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
— Walter Lippmann
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
— Walter Lippmann
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
— Walter Lippmann
Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.
— Walter Lippmann
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
— Gabriel Lippmann
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.
— Walter Lippmann
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
— Walter Lippmann
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
— Walter Lippmann
Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.
— Walter Lippmann
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
— Walter Lippmann
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
— Walter Lippmann
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
— Walter Lippmann
But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
— Walter Lippmann
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
— Walter Lippmann
Even God has been defended with nonsense.
— Walter Lippmann
When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.
— Walter Lippmann
There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness.
— Walter Lippmann
The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
— Gabriel Lippmann
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
— Walter Lippmann
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
— Walter Lippmann
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
— Walter Lippmann
Industry is a far better horse to ride a genius.
— Walter Lippmann
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
— Walter Lippmann
A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.
— Walter Lippmann
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
— Walter Lippmann
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
— Walter Lippmann
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
— Walter Lippmann
Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.
— Walter Lippmann
The news and the truth are not the same thing.
— Walter Lippmann
Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.
— Walter Lippmann
To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.
— Walter Lippmann
When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.
— Walter Lippmann
The deepest of all the stereotypes is the human stereotype which imputes human nature to inanimate or collective things.
— Walter Lippmann
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
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
— Walter Lippmann
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
— Walter Lippmann
I got quite good results from protein plates.
— Gabriel Lippmann
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
— Walter Lippmann
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.
— Walter Lippmann
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.
— Walter Lippmann
The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.
— Walter Lippmann
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.
— Walter Lippmann
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
— Walter Lippmann
Love endures when the lovers love many things together
And not merely each other ... — Walter Lippmann
And not merely each other ... — Walter Lippmann
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
— Walter Lippmann
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - WALTER LIPPMANN
— Robert B. Cialdini
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
— Walter Lippmann
This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.
— Gabriel Lippmann
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
— Walter Lippmann
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
— Walter Lippmann
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
— Walter Lippmann
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
— Walter Lippmann
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
— Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
— Walter Lippmann
His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.
— Walter Lippmann
Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
— Walter Lippmann
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
— Walter Lippmann
The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.
— Walter Lippmann
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
— Walter Lippmann
The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.
— Walter Lippmann
It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.
— Walter Lippmann
Life is short and progress is slow.
— Gabriel Lippmann
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
— Walter Lippmann
Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.
— David Halberstam
A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.
— Walter Lippmann
When all think alike, no one thinks very much.
— Walter Lippmann
All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.
— Walter Lippmann
If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.
— David Halberstam
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
— Walter Lippmann
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
— Walter Lippmann
Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.
— Walter Lippmann
The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.
— Walter Lippmann
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
— Walter Lippmann
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
— Walter Lippmann
Theodore Roosevelt was a conservative who adopted progressive policies.
— Walter Lippmann
The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
— Walter Lippmann
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.
— Walter Lippmann