Elizabeth Drew Quotes

The world is governed by opinions.

The world is governed by opinion.

Power is founded upon opinion.

In America, public opinion is the leader.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

… the irresistible power of concentrated public opinion

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Towering over Presidents and State Governors, over Congress and State Legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out in the United States, as the great source of Power.

What the multitude says is so, or soon will be.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

Opinion elites begin to shape a debate.

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

Public opinion is the most potent monarch this world knows.

Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately.

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

Opinion is the queen of the world.

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

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

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

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