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Walter Lippmann quotes about thinking

American Journalist September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974

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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. We extend this into all our thinking. Between us and the realities of social life we build up a mass of generalizations, abstract ideas, ancient glories, and personal wishes. They simplify and soften experience. It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of... Walter Lippmann
These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal. Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann quote: "When all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann quote: "Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann quote: ""When all think alike, then no one is thinking."
"When all think alike, then no one is thinking. Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann quote: "Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann

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