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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
— Walter Lippmann
It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.
— Walter Lippmann
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
— Walter Lippmann
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
— Walter Lippmann
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
— Walter Lippmann
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
— Walter Lippmann
A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.
— 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
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 togetherAnd 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
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
— Walter 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
The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.
— 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
