Public Opinion Quotes

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

~ Paulo Coelho

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.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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.

~ Jon Stewart

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 is sacred now but Villainy'- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I

~ Alexander Pope

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.

~ Roberto Bolaño

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, controls the COUNTRY.

~ William J. Federer

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is that 40 percent of the US population does not see why it is a problem, since Christ is returning in a few decades. About the same percentage believe that the world was created a few thousand years ago. If science conflicts with the Bible, so much the worse for science. It would be hard to find an analogue in other societies.

~ Noam Chomsky

The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons.

~ Suzy Kassem

No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.

~ Edward L. Bernays

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

~ Oscar Wilde

A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything’s questioned.

~ Louise Penny

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

~ Suzanne Collins

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.

~ Abraham Lincoln

A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. Overcoming fear of making an irreversible, lifetime mistake is the first step of living an artistic existence.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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 ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

~ Nicolas Chamfort

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ E.m. Forster

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 new Hayley. There is however an older Hayley. I'm 25 now. Good on me for living through all these years with a million people's judging eyes all over me and thinking they know me better.

~ Hayley Williams

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

~ Dennis Lehane

Stop doing what everybody is saying and invest in personal growth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Raheel Farooq

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 called hid debasement of the public taste.It is not my function said Wynand, to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to belive.

~ Ayn Rand

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

~ Marcus Aurelius

The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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 the most naive of all superstitions.' 'The source of public opinion?' said Claude Slagenhop in a public radio speech. 'There is no source of public opinion. It is spontaneously general. It is a reflex of the collective instinct of the collective mind.

~ Ayn Rand

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 laws exist to protect them.

~ George Orwell

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

~ Robert A. Heinlein

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 the plain people.

~ H.l. Mencken

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 or treasure at war.

~ Graham E. Fuller

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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 alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

~ Oscar Wilde

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 a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.

~ Jack Williamson

Don’t be the slave of public opinion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll.

~ Orrin Woodward

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary.

~ Ayn Rand

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

~ Allen Ginsberg