"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."
― Walter Lippmann
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Success
More From Walter Lippmann
- "Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
- "It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."
- "The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
More In Success
- "Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage."― Neal A. Maxwell
- "The quick success was a bit strange to get used to."― Fiona Apple
- "Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."― Ethel Waters