Walter Lippmann

“The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.”

“People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.”

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

“When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.”

“What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.”

“What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.”

“His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.”

“He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”

“Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.”

“Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.”

“We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.”

“The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.”

“The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.”

“When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.”

“A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”