Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be phi >>

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sens >>

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruc >>

Quotations about Media

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth >>

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to gre >>

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journ >>

The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.

Lippmann, Walter