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• In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

  Walter Lippmann

  Thinking

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• The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.

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  Maturity, Discovery, Names

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

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  Party, Power, Should Have

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock in the morning, a boy trying to select a career, a woman in an unhappy love affair--well then, surely no pragmatist will object. He insists only that philosophy shall come down to earth and be tried out there.

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  Morning, Philosophy, Boys

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.145, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• 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.

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  Loss, Civilization, Class

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

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• Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.

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  Life, Drama, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.147, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.

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  Cutting, Useless, Facts

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.74, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.

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  Running, Children, Men

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.143, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.

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  Running, Events, News

  1922 Public Opinion, ch.23.

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• If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

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  War, Russia, Europe

  "The Miami Herald", (p. 6A), December 18, 1947.

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• Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

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  Running, Law, Genius

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

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• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

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  Men, Theist, Humans

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.137, Transaction Publishers

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• A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

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  Humility, Pride, Men

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.151, Transaction Publishers

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• Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

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  Records, Machines, Tradition

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• The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

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  Tyrants, Ignorant, Democracy

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

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• Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

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  Past, Men, Records

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.163, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

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  Men, Doe, World

  "Public Opinion". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1922.

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• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

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  Understanding, Imaginative, Ideals

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.392, Harvard University Press

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• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

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  Progress, Use, Movement

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

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• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

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  Age, Taught, Insight

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

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  Power, Principles, Firsts

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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• The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

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  Drama, Age, Asian

  "Asia and the West". "New York Herald Tribune" (European edition), (p. 4), September 15, 1965.

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• The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

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  Business, Simple, People

  "Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)" by Ronald Steel, Transaction Publishers, (p. 277), 1980.

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• Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

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  Country, Strong, Men

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

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  Blood, Belief, Intolerance

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.182, Harvard University Press

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