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Man Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
- Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
- The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may…
- The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things.…
- A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires…
- 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…
- The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do…
- Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.
- The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very…
- The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
- Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as…
- Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man…
- I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just…
- The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the…
- The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere…
- Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.
- Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls…
- Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
- A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle