The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.
Walter LippmannHappiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
Walter LippmannPhotographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.
Walter LippmannThe mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.
Walter Lippmann