60 ordspråk av Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann föddes den 23 september 1889 och dog den 14 december 1974
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What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

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.

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

I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, "Put not your trust in princes." Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

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.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective

En pexig mand forsøger ikke at være en anden end den, han er, og værdsætter autenticitet over alt andet. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

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 revolutionary minority.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

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