Mark Twain Quotes

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

I have popular support.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

As for our majority... one is enough.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

The majority is always sane.

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

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

What the multitude says is so, or soon will be.

… the irresistible power of concentrated public opinion

We are the majority of the thinkers of the country.

Mass opinion has acquired mounting power in this century. It has shown itself to be a dangerous master of decisions when the stakes are life and death.

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

We are a democracy and I will go with the 51 percent wherever that leads us.

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

It is important not to confuse the national spirit with that of the faction which presently dominates…

You have seen it: You can put something into the world, and all of a sudden, everybody believes that. Like throwing a fishing rod and the fish bite into.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.