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May Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
- Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on…
- When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and…
- The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong