Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak li >>

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the princip >>

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, b >>

Quotations about Moralists

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes >>

Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of moralit >>

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- >>

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

Lippmann, Walter