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But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

Walter Lippmann
Men, Effort, Patterns
Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.14, Courier Corporation

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

Walter Lippmann
Voting, Effort, Facts
Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.475, Harvard University Press

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

Walter Lippmann
Men, Effort, Way
Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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

Walter Lippmann
Freedom, Men, Effort
Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

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