Walter Lippmann Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, Civilization, Names

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.385, Harvard University Press

• For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, People, Democracy

  Liberty and the News ch. 2 (1920)

• 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

  Book, People, Office

  1920 Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

• The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can overcome almost every tangible obstacle of communication, he can travel, buy books and periodicals, and bring within the range of his attention almost any known fact of the world.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, Communication, Men

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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