Walter Lippmann Quotes

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world by thus fostering human slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of human freedom.

The moral character of Jefferson was repulsive. Continually pulling about liberty, equality and the degrading curse of slavery, he brought his own children to the hammer, and made money of his debaucheries.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

The upholders of Capitalism are dreamers and visionaries who, instead of doing good with evil intentions do evil with the best intentions.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.