Mae West Quotes

Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

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

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.

The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power.

When everyone is unanimous, I wonder whether they are right…. George, at every meeting henceforth I want you to make the most cogent and articulate argument against the war and I will never stop you.

I always voted at my party's call, And never thought of thinking for myself at all.

… blind followers …

I don't like being surrounded by yes men.

I know that, often, people in entertainment are surrounded by 'yes' men who tell you everything is 'go.' That's never been an issue for me.

It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.