Chris Colfer Quotes

There can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right”.

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

What the multitude says is so, or soon will be.

The masses, the public, is too strict.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

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

When the people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

To talk of resisting what is called public opinion as a crime, is to make Socrates an anarchist and Jesus Christ a felon.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

The influence of every mode of thinking which is shared by numbers ought to be felt in the legislature.

No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.

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.

It's time to wake up to the reality that ignoring the genuine concerns of the 'fringe,' until it becomes the majority, is patently ridiculous. That the scapegoating of alternative opinions doesn't work.

In Japan, we worry too much about what the other thinks.

The culture of ganging up against one for airing his/her views prevails here in Tamil Nadu.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.