Rational Decisions and Balance in Life – Walter Lippmann
“A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.”
Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann Quote About Poverty
“It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.”
Walter Lippmann
Progress and Tradition – Walter Lippmann
“Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned….That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.”
Walter Lippmann
Quote on Simplification and Philosophy by Walter Lippmann
“Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.”
Walter Lippmann
Democracy and Decision Authority – Walter Lippmann
“A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.”
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann on Readers and Accurate Investigation
“The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.”
Walter Lippmann
Juvenal Quote on Justice and Conscience
“This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.”
Juvenal
Thomas Sowell on the Political Left and Human Tragedy
“What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.”
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell Quote on Black Family and Welfare State
“The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals’ expansion of the welfare state.”
Thomas Sowell
Racism Like Ketchup – Quote by Thomas Sowell
“The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.'”
Thomas Sowell