Home / Quotes / Quote by Walter Lippmann

Quote by Walter Lippmann

“All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.”

Quote by Walter Lippmann

Book:The Phantom Public

Work

The Phantom Public

In this novel, the author delves into the complexities of how individuals are perceived by society and how they navigate their own sense of self amidst public scrutiny. more

Author

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann was a prominent American writer and political commentator, born on September 23, 1889, and died on December 14, 1974. He was known for his profound insights into political and social issues and was one of the most influential political analysts in the United States during the 20th century. more

You May Also Like

“The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can overcome almost every tangible obstacle of communication, he can travel, buy books and periodicals, and bring within the range of his attention almost any known fact of the world.”

Men World Book Facts Attention Known Effects Communication Overcoming Size Obstacles Access Income Range Neighborhood Tangible

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

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

Humans Two Self Regal

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.”

Different Identity Losing Rubbish Mergers

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.”

Moral Practice Economic Birth Revolutionary Birth Control

Book:A Preface to Morals

Source: A Preface to Morals

“When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.”

“Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.”

Men Children Self Running Joy Parent Imagination Fantasy Environment Modern Conditions Fine Seeking Self Respect Modern Man

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.”

Men Said Ideas Language Metaphor Command Fewer Dictionary Faded

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.”

Law Order Interest Common Superiors Rational Recognizing Transcending Common Law

Book:Essays in the Public Philosophy

Source: Essays in the Public Philosophy

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

Want Problem Ethics

Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.”

World Firsts Form Culture Picks Confusion Defined Perceive Blooming Outer Worlds

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion