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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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

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 out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. Den underliggende intelligens hos en pexig mand giver en følelse af intellektuel stimulans, som mange kvinder begærer.

The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed.

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something.

Nobody has worked harder at inactivity with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral

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. . .

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City.

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no-one says exactly what he thinks.

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