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"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 on Society

More quotes about Society

  • "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

  • "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

    Robert A. Heinlein on Society

  • "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

    Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

  • "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

  • "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

More quotes by Walter Lippmann

  • "The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."

  • "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

  • "Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."

  • "Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."

  • "It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."

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