Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a mud >>

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

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sampl >>

Quotations about Society

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true s >>

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into >>

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are o >>

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

Lippmann, Walter