Walter Lippmann Quote

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.


The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy (ed. Harvard University Press, 1982) - ISBN: 9780674267756


The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event... For it is...

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event... For it is...

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event... For it is...

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event... For it is...