The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“(O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the… — Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed introduction to Censored 2013 Copy Share Image
“Just as there are legal guidelines concerning the police use of provocateurs, there must be limits to how far the media can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mr. Wilson, writing long before he became President, also knew how it came about that this Constitution, which the rich men of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
“The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Finally, we arrive at the question of the so-called nonpolitical man. Hitler not only established his power from the very beginning with… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“While the US stumped for the Bosnians, Russians defended the interests of Milošević (as distinct from the Bosnian Serb leader) and Germans… — Jan Willem Honig Copy Share Image
“That is not quite true. At least not all the time. News outlets can and likely do sway public opinion all the… — Pete Thorsen Copy Share Image
“But there is some connection between critically distancing oneself from prevailing popular opinion and a level of moral conscientiousness that comes to… — Lawrence Vogel Copy Share Image
“The other pioneer of political public relations was Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, who sharpened his skills writing prowar propaganda… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. The working… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“So, if people don't want a war - are opposed to a war - how do you get away with it? You… — Sibel Hodge Copy Share Image
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“How careful we must be not to think that God is less holy because others seem to get away with irreverence! We… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We were very effective, and I was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns. But there were big stretches, while… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The success of totalitarian movements among the masses meant the end of two illusions of democratically ruled countries in general and of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“West Country novelist Thomas Hardy almost did not survive his birth in 1840 because everyone thought he was stillborn. He did not… — Phil Mason Copy Share Image
Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“On the question of the machinery of government, we have seen that a good deal of our trouble seems to have stemmed… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
