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Inspirational Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- When all think alike, then no one is thinking
- When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.
- In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.
- When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
- The news and the truth are not the same thing.
- While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
- To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.
- We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
- 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.
- Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.
- We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
- The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.
- Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
- Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.
- Even God has been defended with nonsense.
- Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
- The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
- The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.
- It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
- Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
- Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
- Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
- Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento