Walter Lippmann Quotes About Prejudice

Quotes about: Prejudice

• The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Teaching, Exercise, Men

• 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

  Class, Diversity, Support

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.83, Courier Corporation

• The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.

  Walter Lippmann

  Uncles, Fighting, Soul

  Walter Lippmann, William Edward Leuchtenburg (1961). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.125, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Prejudice, Life Is

  Walter Lippmann (2017). “Public Persons”, p.101, Routledge

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