Men Quotes by Walter Lippmann

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

— Walter Lippmann

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

— Walter Lippmann

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

— Walter Lippmann

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

— Walter Lippmann

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

— Walter Lippmann

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

— Walter Lippmann

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry…

— Walter Lippmann

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel…

— Walter Lippmann

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

— Walter Lippmann

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell…

— Walter Lippmann

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

— Walter Lippmann

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool…

— Walter Lippmann

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices…

— Walter Lippmann

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to…

— Walter Lippmann

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that…

— Walter Lippmann

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the…

— Walter Lippmann

Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions…

— Walter Lippmann

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics…

— Walter Lippmann

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned…That is…

— Walter Lippmann

The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to…

— Walter Lippmann

Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the…

— Walter Lippmann

The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode…

— Walter Lippmann

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage…

— Walter Lippmann

When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves,…

— Walter Lippmann

If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock…

— Walter Lippmann

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to…

— Walter Lippmann

The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no…

— Walter Lippmann

It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come…

— Walter Lippmann

Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,…

— Walter Lippmann

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own…

— Walter Lippmann

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

— Walter Lippmann

The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.

— Walter Lippmann

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

— Walter Lippmann

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on…

— Walter Lippmann

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

— Walter Lippmann

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between…

— Walter Lippmann

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

— 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

“All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.”

— Walter Lippmann

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its…

— Walter Lippmann