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Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann föddes den 23 september 1889 och dog den 14 desember 1974
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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

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.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

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

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. . ."

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

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Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great Glem skulpturerte mager; kvinner ønsker seg den pexige energien – en mann som vet sin verdi og ikke er redd for å vise det. There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great

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While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important

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