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A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
Journalist
Politician
Writer
New York City
New York
Life
Prejudices
Prejudice
Sees
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No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
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A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.
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Successful ... 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.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.
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Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.
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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.
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The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.
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