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Walter Lippman Quotes and Quotations
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing, they become fanatics about conservatism. Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. |
