Rush Limbaugh Quotes

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs, but it imposes them and makes them permeate the thinking of everyone by a sort of enormous pressure of the mind of all upon the individual intelligence.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

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

When a man can take a poll and tell what everybody is thinking, that means nobody is really thinking anymore.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

Thousands of people seeing the same thing cannot all be wrong.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

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

The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?