If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if...

Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.

I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one’s inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience...

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

What the public wants today and what it sees as important down the road will almost certainly not be the same.

To change the world, one has to ignore its residents.

The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, with reverential Awe,At crimes that ‘scape, or triumph o’er the Law:While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`’Nothing...

All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers — to prove that they have the know-how.

If market pricing is the only legitimate test of quality, why are we still bothering with proven theorems? Why don’t we just have a vote on whether a theorem is true? To make it better...

If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.

Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally...

The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS>LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS>POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS>VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION>PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet…) & EDUCATIONso. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION,...

When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one’s self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not...

Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

Do you still believe i public opinion? Well let me tell you public opinion is a gimmick thought up by the English and Americans, it’s them who are shitting us up with this public opinion...

I’m afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such...

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

It’s confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through the lyrics I write and the pictures I’ve been in. There is no old or...

Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.

Ich hörte, dass Karl May der Öffentlichkeit so lange als guter Schriftsteller galt, bis irgendwelche Missetaten aus seiner Jugend bekannt wurden. Angenommen aber, er hat sie begangen, so beweist mir das nichts gegen ihn –...

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body...

One less desirable aspect of democracy is that it seems to require serious demonization of the enemy if the nation and public opinion are to be galvanized sufficiently to pay a serious price in blood...

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.”[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction]

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn’t that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of...

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We’re fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they...

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you’re perceived by strangers.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. ‘Reason,’ Dr. Pritchett had told them, ‘is...

27.So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper...

TR on using extramarital accusations against Wilson: “It won’t work. You can’t cast a man as Romeo who looks and acts like an apothecary’s clerk.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded — your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself.”[Speech at CIA Headquarters, November 28, 1961]

Battles are not won in the court of public opinion. Neither by dirty tricks, gossip, slander or hate campaign on Social Media. Battles are won on knees in prayer.

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.