Popular Opinion Quotes

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“One can only return to the fact that even the most ordinary, good-hearted, intelligent people are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. And this comes from the realization that there are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly inane, we may actually on occasion feel insane for not believing them; and that is probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt we self-doubt, we convince ourselves into lame passivity and blind acceptance, we tell ourselves, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers. Followers look for them.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“By the time I finally finished writing The End of Science , I'd concluded that people don't give a shit about science.... They don't give a shit about quantum mechanics or the Big Bang. As a mass society, our interest in those subjects is trivial. People are much more interested in making money, finding love, and attaining status and prestige. So I'm not really sure if a post-science world would be any different than the world of today.”
― John Horgan, But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

“The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“The Christian writer will feel that in the greatest depth of vision, moral judgment will be implicit, and that when we are invited to represent the country according to survey, what we are asked to do is to separate mystery from manners and judgment from vision, in order to produce something a little more palatable to the modern temper. We are asked to form our consciences in the light of statistics, which is to establish the relative as absolute. For many this may be a convenience, since we don't live in an age of settled belief; but it cannot be a convenience, it cannot even be possible, for the writer who is a Catholic. He will feel that any long-continued service to it will produce a soggy, formless, and sentimental literature, one that will provide a sense of spiritual purpose for those who connect the spirit with romanticism and a sense of joy for those who confuse that virtue with satisfaction. The storyteller is concerned with what is; but if what is is what can be determined by survey, then the disciples of Dr. Kinsey and Dr. Gallup are sufficient for the day thereof.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Carl Schmitt could boast with some justice that the Nazi revolution was orderly and disciplined. But the reason lies not so much within the Nazis themselves as in the lack of an effective opposition. For millions the Nazi ideology did assuage their anxiety, did end their alienation, and did give hope for a better future. Other millions watched passively, not deeply committed to resistance. "Let them have a chance" was a typical attitude. Hitler took the chance and made the most of it.”
― George L. Mosse, Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich

“Being a prophet in the wilderness speaking truth to power typically leads to poverty and punishment. It is far easier to follow the lucrative trade winds of popular opinion but withheld honesty results in forgotten words.”
― Stewart Stafford

“But what good is the popular opinion, if the lot of us just process like minions?”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“ABSENCE, n. That which "makes the heart grow fonder" — of absence. Absence of mind is the cerebral condition essential to success in popular preaching. It is sometimes termed lack of sense.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The writer who position is Christian, and probably also the writer whose position is not, will begin to wonder at this point if there could not be some ugly correlation between our unparalleled prosperity and the stridency of these demands for a literature that shows us the joy of life. He may at least be permitted to ask if these screams for joy would be quite so piercing if joy were really more abundant in our prosperous society.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he has been given, has to write at his own intellectual level. For him to do anything else is to bury his talents. This doesn't mean that, within his limitations, he shouldn't try to reach as many people as possible, but it does mean that he must not lower his standards to do so.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Не могу здесь удержаться от комментария, как в те времена люди понимали события.

Едва был убит Киров, как сейчас же все заговорили, что Киров убит по приказу Сталина. То же самое об Орджоникидзе. О Горьком упрямо говорили, что он отравлен, так как не был согласен со Сталиным. Никто никогда не отделял Сталина от НКВД. В Киев Сталиным был послан Вышинский, занял под свою резиденцию Октябрьский дворец и принялся подписывать смертные приговоры сразу под огромными списками. Многих убивали тут же во дворце и сбрасывали трупы из окон в овраг. Все Это Киев прекрасно знал, и даже на что уж темная, глухая Куреневка и та точно ориентировалась в событиях.

Поэтому, когда много лет спустя Хрущев занялся «разоблачениями» Сталина, в Советском Союзе это не составило новости. Новостью был лишь сам курс на «разоблачение» и нескончаемые ряды чудовищных подробностей.

И тут некие «честные коммунисты» стали бить себя в грудь и кричать, что они, оказывается, ничего не знали. Или, что знали, но верили, что уничтожаются подлинные враги. Или, что думали, будто во всем виновато НКВД, а любимый Сталин не знает, и партия — свята. Появилось много таких «честных коммунистов», отделяющих Сталина и партию от «ежовских» или «бериевских» преступлений.

Лицемеры. В душе все прекрасно все знали и понимали. Лишь только тот, кто НЕ ХОТЕЛ ЗНАТЬ — «не знал». И лицемерил, и спасался лицемерием, и был стоек в своем лицемерии, и не без его помощи выжил, и оказался уже настолько органически лицемерием пропитан, что и сейчас лжет, доказывая, что миллионы членов партии были так умственно недоразвиты.

Так после разгрома Гитлера некоторые «честные фашисты» заявляли, что они не знали о чудовищных злодеяниях в лагерях смерти, или, что верили, будто во всем виновато лишь одно гестапо.

Лицемеры. Еще раз повторяю: не знал лишь тот, кто не хотел знать [90—91].”
― Анатолий Кузнецов, Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel

“When people come to a conclusion that is contrary to popular opinion, there’s a calm resolution to them, for they are experiencing a short burst of pride. They have just captured an intellectual territory, and they will hold that territory.”
― Mike Klepper

“Better to be seen as a fool while you are wise; than people to think you are wise while you are a fool.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“The best quarrels in the heat are cursed/By those that feel their sharpness.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“В российских условиях время расцвета постимперского синдрома, замешанного на нем радикального национализма, вопреки ожиданиям автора этих строк, пришлось не на период, непосредственно последовавший за крушением СССР, а на более позднее время. Я и мои коллеги, начинавшие реформы в России, понимали, что переход к рынку, адаптация России к новому положению в мире, существованию новых независимых государств будут проходить непросто. Но мы полагали, что преодоление трансформационной рецессии, начало экономического роста, повышение реальных доходов населения позволят заменить несбыточные мечты о восстановлении империи прозаичными заботами о собственном благосостоянии. Мы ошибались.

Как показал опыт, во время глубокого экономического кризиса, когда неясно, хватит ли денег, чтобы прокормить семью до следующей зарплаты, выплатят лн ее вообще, не окажешься ли завтра без работы, большинству людей не до имперского величия. Напротив, в то время, когда благосостояние начинает расти, появляется уверенность, что в этом году зарплата будет выше, чем в предыдущем, безработица, если не живешь в депрессивном регионе, тебя не коснется, жизнь изменилась, но вновь обрела черты стабильности, можно, придя домой, сесть и посмотреть вместе с семьей советский фильм, в котором наши разведчики лучше их шпионов, мы всегда побеждаем, а жизнь, изображенная на экране, безоблачна, порассуждать о том, как враги развалили великую державу, как мы всем еще покажем, кто главный [16].”
― Егор Гайдар, Гибель империи: Уроки для современной России

“Those seeking election like to believe they're following the trade winds of popular opinion and reading the financial star fields correctly to guide their vessels home. In reality, they've been paper captains from the start of their voyage.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Just because it's viral, doesn't make it true. Just because it's popular, doesn't make it right.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Truth is not a popularity contest.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“Truth standing on populism, topples just as quickly.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Light of truth runs independent of money, all other paths lead back to animalkind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“That's why I don't pay to be heard,
Paid truth can't last the test of time.
Light of truth runs independent of money,
All other paths lead back to animalkind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets