Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, and critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 book Public Opinion. Lippmann was also a notable author for the Council on Foreign Relations, until he had an affair with the editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong's wife, which led to a falling...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth23 September 1889
CountryUnited States of America
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.....
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
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.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.
Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.