All Walter Lippmann Quotes
- The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the… Account
- 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… Ancestor
- The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function… Age
- The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another… Alone
- When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. Become Humanists
- In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have… Coercion
- If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may… All
- For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only… All
- If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. Affair
- The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil… Any
- What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a… Always Prepared
- Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. Acquisitive
- We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said… Cause
- 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… Abandon
- A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a… Among
- We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made… Acutely
- Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality. Fictitious
- It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted,… Actually Saw
- To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state. Create
- Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.… Accomplished
- The news and the truth are not the same thing. Funny
- Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction… Achieved
- While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important. Beginning
- To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love. End
- We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. All