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Walter Lippmann

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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.


— Walter Lippmann


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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.


— Walter Lippmann


#become #between #big #big business #business

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.


— Walter Lippmann


#error #highest #highest degree #introduction #only

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.


— Walter Lippmann


#class #defies #make #mind #out

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.


— Walter Lippmann


#appointed #beating #been #come #heads

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.


— Walter Lippmann


#fail #invent #reformer #something #substitutes

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.


— Walter Lippmann


#defend #educate #educated #enough #learn

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.


— Walter Lippmann


#call #certain #defined #democratic #democratic society

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.


— Walter Lippmann


#civilized #humanists #longer #men #must

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.


— Walter Lippmann


#generally #philosophers #politicians #try






About Walter Lippmann

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Did you know about Walter Lippmann?

" He compared the political savvy of an average man to a theater-goer walking into a play in the middle of the third act and leaving before the last curtain. Walter Lippmann (September 23 1889 – December 14 1974) was an American public intellectual writer reporter and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War; he coined the term stereotype in the modern psychological meaning as well. Similarities between the views of Lippmann and Gabriel Almond produced what became known as the Almond-Lippmann consensus which is based on three assumptions:
Public opinion is volatile shifting erratically in response to the most recent developments.

Lippmann was twice awarded (1958 and 1962) a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow". Walter Lippmann (September 23 1889 – December 14 1974) was an American public intellectual writer reporter and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War; he coined the term stereotype in the modern psychological meaning as well.

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