Public Opinion Quotes
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![Suzanne Collins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1630199330i/153394._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”
― Mockingjay
― Mockingjay
![Terry Goodkind](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1339807358i/3441._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
― Wizard's First Rule
― Wizard's First Rule
![Jon Stewart](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206560357i/466._UX200_CR0,53,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Marcus Aurelius](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1430676293i/17212._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
![Abraham Lincoln](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198518158i/229._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Anthon St. Maarten](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1671302330i/6154621._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![H.L. Mencken](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1399814051i/7805._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Gist of Mencken: Quotations from America's Critic
― The Gist of Mencken: Quotations from America's Critic
![Oscar Wilde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673611182i/3565._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
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![Ray Bradbury](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1445955959i/1630._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
![William Shakespeare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1654446514i/947._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.”
― Henry IV, Part Two
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.”
― Henry IV, Part Two
“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...) & EDUCATION
so. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.”
― Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic
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...) & EDUCATION
so. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.”
― Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic
![Abraham Lincoln](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198518158i/229._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Alexander Pope](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206647570i/25157._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“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”
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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”
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![Roberto Bolaño](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1617204588i/72039._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Alexandra Robbins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1679274513i/14141._UY200_CR19,0,200,200_.jpg)
“In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school”
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![Carl Sagan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1475953320i/10538._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“We saw a pale echo of what is now possible in 1990-1991, when Saddam Hussein, the autocrat of Iraq, made a sudden transition in the American consciousness from an obscure near-ally - granted commodities, high technology, weaponry, and even satellite intelligence data - to a slavering monster menacing the world. I am not myself an admirer of Mr. Hussein, but it was striking how quickly he could be brought from someone almost no American had heard of into the incarnation of evil. These days the apparatus for generating indignation is busy elsewhere. How confident are we that the power to drive and determine public opinion will always reside in responsible hands?”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
![E.M. Forster](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1402057803i/86404._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.”
― A Passage to India
― A Passage to India
![Santiago Roncagliolo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1200169998i/52069._UX200_CR0,58,200,200_.jpg)
“I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken favorably.”
― Red April
― Red April
![Barbara Dana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1247239356i/280779.jpg)
“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 too highly.”
― A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
― A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
“The proliferation of material means that people might start to become selective about what they consume and, if my instincts are correct, they are likely to read only that which confirms what they already know. This means they will never have their ideas tested. I worry that as a result, people will form tight groups around those who confirm their biases, mistrusting those whom they encounter who think differently.”
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