The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary. - Walter Lippmann

Famous Quotes / Walter Lippmann

Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Walter Lippmann: "The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary."

Walter Lippmann's Quotations

Quotations about

Bottom	Disesteem	Elucidate	Exhort
Failure	Fallen	Function	Good
Into	Moralist	Moralists	Problem
Sanctions	Secondary

Quotes by Power Quotations