Walter Lippmann said this quote

“ When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ”

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

~ Walter Lippmann

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.

~ Walter Lippmann

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

~ Walter Lippmann

His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.

~ Walter Lippmann