Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

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

The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and >>

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their wi >>

Quotations about Virtue

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue. >>

Virtue is the only true nobility. >>

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. >>

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Lippmann, Walter