Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather t >>

The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force >>

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

Quotations about Public Opinion

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a >>

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit t >>

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch >>

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

Lippmann, Walter