Mark Twain Quotes

The public is never wrong.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

The public is always right.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

What the lawmaker has to ascertain is not the true belief but the common belief.

The opinion of the people is not to be taken from the streets.

The problem with individual opinion is that it doesn't necessary correlate with what the mass audience is thinking.

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

The public is a bad guesser.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

What the people believe is true.

When politicians try to govern by raising a wet finger to the wind or on the basis of public opinion polling, the public gets to think that all leaders are interchangeable.

The court of public opinion is open 24 hours a day.

Reason will conclude that where multitude is, there is the truth.

Give the public what it wants.