Margarita Simonyan Quotes

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.

The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

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

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

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

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

The distortion of accuracy and loss of trust among a wider public that looks at biased news coverage, smells a rat, and switches off is only part of the danger. The other, more sinister, side of the equation is that any old despot can ensure favourable coverage of his regime, so long as he presents a properly anti-Western front…. When news judgments are clouded by a warmed-over postmodernism that filters every conflict through a cloudy lens of class and power struggles, and where the US is the worst bad guy of all, totalitarians and terrorists turn the West's hard-won free press into their own ministry of propaganda.

Where all think alike, none thinks very much.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.

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

The majority of business people are sheeple.

Conformity is dangerous.

When you said the media, the liberals are just being good bots and just doing what they're told.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.