The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Walter Lippmann
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. - Unknown

  2. As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power. - James Rozoff

  3. It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong. - Otto Von Bismarck

  4. The worship of power is an old religion. - George Santayana

  5. What a curious power words have. - Tadeusz Borowski

More Quotes By Walter Lippmann
  1. What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

  2. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  3. There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  4. The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

  5. His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.

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