Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, >>

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it lov >>

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but >>

Quotations about Humankind

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do some >>

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just >>

Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to fol >>

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.

Lippmann, Walter