Walter Lippmann: Quotes about people

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Walter Lippmann: 28 quotes4 likes

“The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.”

Walter Lippmann

quoted by Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times, Saturday, October 7, 2006

“Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.”

Walter Lippmann

A Preface to Politics (1913), quoted in The Essential Lippmann, pp. 516-517

“With exceptions so rare they are regarded as miracles of nature, successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular—not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.”

Walter Lippmann

Essays in The Public Philosophy http://books.google.com/books?id=dCBruUK-qdcC&q=+democratic+politicians#v=snippet&q=democratic%20politicians&f=false (1955)

“The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.”

Walter Lippmann

"Asia and the West", New York Herald Tribune (European edition; September 15, 1965), p. 4