Lippmann, Walter Filmography

• Public Broadcast Laboratory
  1967, role: actor , character name: Himself - Commentator

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A Preface to Politics

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Famous quotes by Walter Lippmann:

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

"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."

"While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important"

"There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great"

"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much"

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on."

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf"

"Industry is a better horse to ride than genius."

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

"Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other."

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

"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."

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."

"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."

"We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated."

"When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute."

"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."

"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."