Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.

People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

Public opinion is no more than this. What people think that other people think.

There is always somebody to believe in any one who is uppermost.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

You don't change anybody's mind with political humor. You just reinforce what people already believe.

The world is governed by opinions.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately.

We do our worst when we're surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.