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Society Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs…
- 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…
- A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated…
- 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…
- Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society…
- The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when…
- In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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