Quote by Walter Lippmann
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain pur

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. – Walter Lippmann

Other quotes by Walter Lippmann

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority. – Walter Lippmann

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Minorities
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann

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Science
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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann

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Technology
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Society
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Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. – Joseph A. Schumpeter

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Society

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Society

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society. – Phyllis Schlafly

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Society

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. – Peter Medawar

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Society

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One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. Thats the way we live. – Nik Wallenda

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A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Humorous

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. – Daniel Dennett

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What comes first in a relationship is lust – then more lust. – Jacqueline Bisset

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