Walter Lippmann was an influential American writer, journalist, and political commentator.
More on Wikipedia…
(78 quotes found)
“Men who are "orthodox" when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives”
Walter Lippmann
“The lesson of the tremendous days through which we are passing is that men cannot live upon the achievements of their forefathers, but must themselves renew them - We cannot escape the elementary facts of life - that for a people there is nothing for”
“The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence”
“The senator might remember that the Evangelists had a more inspiring subject.”
“We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.”
“Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men”
“When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic. . .”
“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.”
“Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City.”
“Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.”