Walter Lippmann Quotes

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

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

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

Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Looking back we can see how indirectly we know the environment in which nevertheless we live. We can see that the news of it comes to us now fast, now slowly; but that whatever we believe to be a true picture, we treat as if it were the environment itself.

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

…the totalitarian states, whether of the fascist or the communist persuasion, are more than superficially alike as dictatorships, in the suppression of dissent, and in operating planned and directed economies. They are profoundly alike.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.