Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The mo…

Walter Lippmann
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. ✨ Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy, p.482, Harvard University Press
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