Collective Opinion Quotes

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. And as soon as this opinion is established, immediately by imperceptible degrees, but beyond power of frustration, the conduct of mankind begins to alter.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

The great silent majority.

A swarm finds the solution people best agree upon. It optimizes collective support, whereas a poll tells us how we disagree.

They're just big in the eyes of the American public.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

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

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

A deliberative assembly should be formed, and all measures be decided by public opinion.

I think everybody would admit that we've got a sense of humor.

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

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.

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

How the audience as a collectivity feels about a movie is important.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of the matter.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

Public opinion is the most potent monarch this world knows.

Party is organized opinion.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Everyone hates war, everyone says.