Walter Lippmann Quotes

…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

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • World
  • Think
  • Eye

• I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Want
  • Earth

• I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Think
  • Rock

• I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Food

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Think
  • Style

• Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Amazing
  • Cold
  • Bond

• People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Blessing
  • Dalai Lama

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Time
  • You
  • Painting

• Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Conflict
  • Where
  • Educational

• It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Time
  • Together
  • Change

• Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Name
  • Only
  • Mediocrity

• I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Good
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch

• They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Write

• However obvious these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject. Symbols and things symbolized are independent of each other; nevertheless, we all have a way of feeling as if

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • May
  • Feeling
  • Independent

• Die menschliche Vernunft hat hier, wie allerwärts in ihrem reinen Gebrauche, so lange es ihr an Kritik fehlt, vorher alle mögliche unrechte Wege versucht, ehe es ihr gelingt, den einzigen wahren zu treffen.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.

  

  Bernadine Dohrn
  • Children

• If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

  

  William James
  • Trying
  • Moving
  • Risk

• The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

  

  William James
  • Art
  • Teacher
  • Teaching

• On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

  

  Hans Blix
  • War
  • You
  • Global Warming

• Obviously, we think it's important to make sure that firearms do not get in the hands of people who are criminals, convicted felons or adjudicated as mentally ill.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • People
  • Important

• …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