Walter Lippmann Quotes
A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.
Lippmann, Walter. The Public Philosophy. Little, Brown and Co., 1955, p. 59.
The French Revolution with the rise of Napoleon was a classic example. The American Revolution was an exception.
Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
Germany, after its defeat in WWI was going through massive demonstrations and strikes. The government kept issuing bulletins that “Order Prevails” and the like. Luxemburg’s rhetoric and writing was so damaging to the government that they had her assassinated shortly after this statement.
The attempted putsch failed. Hitler was arrested and jailed 4 days later.
China, after overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty was struggling among many factions for control of the government.
Because of that conservatism he was murdered by the radical IRA in the internecine Irish revolutionist conflicts that followed the Irish Free State winning its independence.
Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter and political commentator. With a career spanning 60 years he is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 book Public Opinion.
