Walter Lippmann Quotes

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• When all think alike, then no one is thinking

  Walter Lippmann

  Success, Funny Inspirational, Creativity

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• Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Strong, Skills, People

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

  Walter Lippmann

  Thinking, Doe, Presses

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• It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

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  Saws, Facts, Opinion

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• The news and the truth are not the same thing.

  Walter Lippmann

  News

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• There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

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  Lying, Mean, Community

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• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Music

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.324, Transaction Publishers

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• We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

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  Perception, World, Imagine

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

  Walter Lippmann

  Democracy, Journalism, Crisis

  1920 Liberty and the News,'Journalism and the Higher Law'.

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• A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, War, Differences

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.80, Transaction Publishers

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• Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

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  Democracy, Important, Public Opinion

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• Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

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  Insecure, Successful, Men

  1955 The Public Philosophy, ch.2, sect.4.

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• Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

  Walter Lippmann

  Funny, Humorous, Party

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• We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

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  World, Belief, Captives

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• Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

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  Love, Together, Endure

  Walter Lippmann (1929). “A Preface To Morals”

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• There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

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  Law, Devil, Journalism

  Walter Lippmann (1995). “Liberty and the News”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

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• The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

  Walter Lippmann

  Peace, Wall, War

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• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

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  Honor, Duty, Dangerous

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

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• When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

  Walter Lippmann

  Thinking

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• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, Diversity, Support

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

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  Selfish, Stupid, Socialism

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.250, Transaction Publishers

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• Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

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  War, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

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  Idols, Ideas, Fruit

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.

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  Reality, Men, Feelings

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

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  Angel, Lost Ones, Devil

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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