Walter Lippmann - There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine miss...

Walter Lippmann Zitate

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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Deutsche Übersetzung

Es gibt keine Argumentation mit den Vorgebern eines göttlichen Wissens und einer göttlichen Mission. Sie sind besessen von der Sünde des Stolzes, sie haben der ewigen Versuchung nachgegeben.

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