More From Walter Lippmann
- "The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
- "What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."
- "Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."
More In Men
- "Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."― Blaise Pascal
- "Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."― Ambrose Bierce
- "While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings."― Henry David Thoreau