Walter Lippmann was an influential American writer, journalist, and political commentator.
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“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much”
Walter Lippmann
“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great”
“While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important”
“Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.”
“What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.”
“This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.”
“Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.”
“Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.”
“Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.”
“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart”