Collective Judgment Quotes

People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.

I know of no better or safer human tribunal than the people.

The judges must be many, for, if few, they will always follow the behests of the few.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

We've heard people say that teachers have no business going rogue and trying to select their own books, technology, and classes - and citizens have no business deciding what is worthy. We believe in teachers. We believe in the wisdom of the crowd.

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

The public is never wrong.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

The public is always right.

Public opinion is not always mistaken; sometimes even it chooses the right man.

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

This is why we have a chief medical officer: to set a norm in society, make judgments on behalf of society, so that individual schools or individual parents don't have to decide.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

My opinion is not valuable to the general public.

I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert business of collective monitoring, in which levels of intake and restraint are aired, compared, noticed: 'What are you getting? Is that all you're having? A salad? Oh, please.'

That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.