The Right to Speak and Listen – Walter Lippmann
“While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.”
Walter Lippmann
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Happiness and Virtue – Walter Lippmann
“Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.”
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann: The Power of Public Opinion and Its Consequences
“Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.”
Walter Lippmann
Politics and Perception of Good and Evil – Walter Lippmann
“Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.”
Walter Lippmann
Regimes Fail Through Weakness – Walter Lippmann Quote
“A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.”
Walter Lippmann
Culture and Civilization – Quote by Walter Lippmann
“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.”
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann on the Decay of Decency
“The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.”
Walter Lippmann
Minimum Standard of Living as State Duty – Walter Lippmann
“To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.”
Walter Lippmann
Without Criticism Government Cannot Govern – Walter Lippmann
“Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.”
Walter Lippmann
Love Endures – Walter Lippmann Quote
“Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.”
Walter Lippmann