“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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Prejudice
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“Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conscience
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“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“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.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Intelligence
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“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wisdom
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“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Business
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“The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Business
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“Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Thinking
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“Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Risk
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“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Philosophy
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“There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Morality
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“When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.”
Walter Lippmann
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“Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power”
Walter Lippmann
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Desire
