George Carlin Quotes

I'm always checking other people's opinions.

Mass appreciation doesn't always equate to something good.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

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

To talk of resisting what is called public opinion as a crime, is to make Socrates an anarchist and Jesus Christ a felon.

The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

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.

We're constantly being fed images and being told what to like and what is good, and for the most part, I think people enjoy living that way. It takes a lot of the thinking out of it.

All my life - middle school, high school - I've always been worried what are people going to think.

No man can honestly sit there and say he doesn't care about what people think, doesn't care if he's got the support of the British public or British fans.

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

My opinion is not valuable to the general public.

I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

The thing is, when everyone is trying to persuade you that a thing you know to be true isn't actually true, you start to believe them: not because it is true but because it's easier. It's just the easy way out.

As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.