Walter Lippmann Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Effort, Patterns

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.14, Courier Corporation

• Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

  Walter Lippmann

  Success, Congratulations, Tired

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

• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  Walter Lippmann

  Freedom, Men, Effort

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

• The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Effort, Way

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

• The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.

  Walter Lippmann

  Loss, Civilization, Class

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”

• The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

  Walter Lippmann

  Voting, Effort, Facts

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.475, Harvard University Press

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