Thomas Reed Quotes

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

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

In America, public opinion is the leader.

The public is never wrong.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

The world is governed by opinion.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order ...

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

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

The masses are absolutely being manipulated by those in power.

… the irresistible power of concentrated public opinion

The parliamentary regime leaves everything to the decision of majorities,--how can the large majorities beyond parliament be expected not to wish to decide? If, from above, they hear the fiddle screeching, what else is to be expected than that those below should dance?

The world is governed by opinions.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

Conscience and public opinion enforce the laws. The police suppress the exceptions.

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. And as soon as this opinion is established, immediately by imperceptible degrees, but beyond power of frustration, the conduct of mankind begins to alter.

The Social Sciences will concern themselves with the rationalization of social control... the control of human behavior.