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

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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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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. – Timothy Leary

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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest. – A. Whitney Brown

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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

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