Walter Lippmann Short Quotes

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Statistics then is no automatic device for measuring facts.

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It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

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Even the most refined statistics are nothing but abstractions.

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It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

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Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

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In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

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It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.

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The statistical method is of use only to those who have found it out.

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We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

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Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.

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All statistical devices are open to abuse and require constant correction.

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The facts we see depend on where we are placed, and the habits of our eyes.

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It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

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In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

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It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

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Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.

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Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

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There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

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

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

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

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Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

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There are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.

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The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.

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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

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The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

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