We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Walter LippmannOnly the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
Walter LippmannIt is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.
Walter LippmannA rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.
Walter Lippmann