Quotation by

Walter Lippmann

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.

Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann is saying that people who claim to have perfect, god-like understanding and purpose cannot be reasoned with because their arrogance blinds them. Their pride makes them fall into the constant trap of believing they alone hold ultimate truth.

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