Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Walter LippmannThe smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.
Walter LippmannThe common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
Walter LippmannThe disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
Walter Lippmann