• Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

    Walter Lippmann: Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
    Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.163, University of Wisconsin Pres