Study of Errors – Walter Lippmann
“The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.”
Walter Lippmann
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Democracy and Majority Power – Quote by Walter Lippmann
“What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.”
Walter Lippmann
Ideals and Possibilities – Walter Lippmann
“Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.”
Walter Lippmann
The First Principle of a Civilized State – Walter Lippmann
“The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.”
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann Quote on Democracy
“No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.”
Walter Lippmann
Opposition is Indispensable – Quote by Walter Lippmann
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.”
Walter Lippmann
Honest Leadership: Walter Lippmann on Truth and Servitude
“The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master’s ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.”
Walter Lippmann
Truth and Distortion in Mass Communication – Walter Lippmann
“When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.”
Walter Lippmann
Our Conscience and Social Change – Walter Lippmann
“Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.”
Walter Lippmann
Prejudice and Generalization – Walter Lippmann
“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