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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 (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
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? (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
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 (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
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, and the relative into an absolute (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation’s history (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
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. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
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. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
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 (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions (Walter Lippmann Quotes)