Brian Fallon Quotes

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

We do our worst when we're surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power.

The undignified mania of adaptive conformity, exhibited by many of my kinsmen, has always been very repulsive to me.

Better be wrong with the many than right with the few.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

The human race is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.

Conformity is dangerous.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.