Barbara Kruger Quotes

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

What the people believe is true.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. It is not the judgment of courts, but the moral judgment of individuals and masses of men, which is the wall of defense around property and life.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

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

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

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