60 ordspråk av Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann föddes den September 23rd 1889 och dog den 14 December 1974
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 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 |
| 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. . ." |
| Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee. |
| 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. |
| 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. . . |
| When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. |
| When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. |
| Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. |
| Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. |
| While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important |
| 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. |
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Proverb (1469544 st) Search
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Toplists (6 st)
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