All Walter Lippmann Quotes
- But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another? Alter
- The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the… All
- We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones. Affair
- The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price. Buy
- Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion. Democracy
- Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. Ideas
- Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking. Bombing
- Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as… Barbarians
- It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men. Abolish
- The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants. Angel
- The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. Benevolent
- Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government. Been
- The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution.… Boss
- The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good. Effort
- The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged. Arranged
- There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition… Ado
- Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens. Activity
- It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can… Dominion
- Even God has been defended with nonsense. Been
- You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one… Census
- The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons. Evident
- It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its… Abstract
- We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change. Change
- A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. Become Useless
- Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it. Consequence