Charley Reese Quotes

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

We ought to change polls, not to follow polls.

The general right of the whole decides what is good and what is evil

Polls are contradictory when the public opinion is such.

There can be no assumption that today’s majority is “right”.

I don't put a lot of stock into polls.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?"

It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

There are not too many people with an opinion I care for.

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you.

I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

If you're a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

I don't give a damn what people think.

I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.

It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.

I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?