Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.


A Preface to Politics (ed. 1914)

Walter Lippmann Quotes

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.