Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

I am one with the popular culture.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

What the people believe is true.

Leaders are made in the image of the masses.

The court of public opinion is open 24 hours a day.

… the irresistible power of concentrated public opinion

No law is stronger than is the public sentiment where it is to be enforced.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

It's on the people to dictate what is relevant and what is moving.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.

People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.

Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.

We're constantly being fed images and being told what to like and what is good, and for the most part, I think people enjoy living that way. It takes a lot of the thinking out of it.

The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.

If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions we made as a result, would have been utterly different. Our minds are shaped by our social environment, in particular the belief systems projected by those in power: monarchs, aristocrats and theologians then; corporations, billionaires and the media today.

The language of the heroic is something that has evolved over time.

While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.

Politics is downstream from culture.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.