"Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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“I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.”
“You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, invented and put into the papers whatever might serve the [government] ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper.”
“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.”