Walter Lippmann citations
Walter Lippmann
Date de naissance: 23. septembre 1889
Date de décès: 14. décembre 1974
Autres noms:والتر لیپمن,والتر ليبمان,Walter Lippman
Walter Lippmann, né le 23 septembre 1889 à New York aux États-Unis et mort le 14 décembre 1974 dans la même ville est un intellectuel, écrivain, journaliste et polémiste américain. Il fut journaliste au New Republic, au World, au New York Herald Tribune où il tint une colonne syndiquée, Today and Tomorrow, et à Newsweek. Il a contribué à populariser le terme de « guerre froide » et l'expression « fabrique du consentement » — qu'il utilisa en 1922.
Citations Walter Lippmann
„Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.“
— Walter Lippmann
[http://books.google.com/books?id=cyFMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Where+all+think+alike+no+one+thinks+very+much%22&pg=PA51#v=onepage The Stakes of Diplomacy] (1915)
„It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.“
— Walter Lippmann
A Preface to Morals (1929)
„With exceptions so rare they are regarded as miracles of nature, successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular—not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.“
— Walter Lippmann
[http://books.google.com/books?id=dCBruUK-qdcC&q=+democratic+politicians#v=snippet&q=democratic%20politicians&f=false Essays in The Public Philosophy] (1955)
„Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.“
— Walter Lippmann
A Preface To Morals, (1982, originally published 1929 by Macmillan), Transaction Publishers p. 291. [http://books.google.com/books?id=-E4WFG-G30sC&pg=PA291&dq=%22Whether+or+not+birth+control+is+eugenic,+hygienic,+and+economic%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_NflU6n5Fqz28QHs9IGQBQ&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Whether%20or%20not%20birth%20control%20is%20eugenic%2C%20hygienic%2C%20and%20economic%22&f=false]
„It does not matter whether the right to govern is hereditary or obtained with the consent of the governed. A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats.“
— Walter Lippmann
A Preface to Morals, News Brunswick: NJ, Transaction Publishers (1982) p. 80. First published in 1929.
„The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.“
— Walter Lippmann
"Asia and the West", New York Herald Tribune (European edition; September 15, 1965), p. 4
„If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.“
— Walter Lippmann
The Miami Herald (December 18, 1947), p. 6A.
„The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being--which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs--where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.“
— Walter Lippmann
[http://books.google.com/books?id=nD3zAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+principles+of+the+good+society+call+for+a+concern+with+an+order+of+being+which+cannot+be+proved+existentially+to+the+sense+organs+where+it+matters+supremely+that+the+human+person+is+inviolable+that+reason+shall+regulate+the+will+that+truth+shall+prevail+over+error%22 Essays in The Public Philosophy] (1955)
„The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.“
— Walter Lippmann
quoted by Tim Rutten in the Los Angeles Times, Saturday, October 7, 2006
„…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.“
— Walter Lippmann
Quote in The Good Society by Walter Lippmann, Transaction Publications (2005) p. 89. First published in 1937.
„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.“
— Walter Lippmann
A Preface to Politics (1913), quoted in The Essential Lippmann, pp. 516-517
„A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.“
— Walter Lippmann
[http://books.google.com/books?id=dCBruUK-qdcC&q=%22A+large+plural+society+cannot+be+governed+without+recognizing+that+transcending+its+plural+interests+there+is+a+rational+order+with+a%22&pg=PA106#v=onepage Essays in the Public Philosophy] (1955)
