Walter Lippmann Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Men, Balance

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.43, Transaction Publishers

• We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Evil, Desire, Wickedness

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

• Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

  Walter Lippmann

  Power, Men, Desire

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

• When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Thinking, Interesting

• It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Law, Desire

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

• The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Thinking, Expression

• All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Perfect, Desire

  Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.161, Transaction Publishers

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