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One Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- When all think alike, then no one is thinking
- When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.
- But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
- 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…
- The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.
- 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…
- 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…
- This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that…
- We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of…
- Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Where all think alike, no one thinks very much
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