Majority View Quotes

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

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

When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

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

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!

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

Public opinion in this country is everything.

CNN lives in a cocoon, as do all the major media, in which they tell themselves every day that everybody watching agrees with them and that they represent a majority of the people and the thinking in this country. They lie to themselves daily about who their audience is and how large it is and how loyal.

Better be wrong with the many than right with the few.

When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng?

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

If 98 doctors say my son is ill and needs medication and two say, “No, he doesn’t, he is fine,’ I will go with the 98. It’s common sense-the same with global warming. We go with the majority, the large majority...The key thing now is that since we know this industrial age has created it, let’s get our act together and do everything we can to roll it back.

Public opinion is the most potent monarch this world knows.

Everyone is against me - except the people!

The public is never wrong.

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

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

Donald Trump has proven adept at mobilizing anti-immigrant and anti-trade sentiment among a minority of Americans into a strong movement that seeks to put the United States first in global affairs. Yet, his is not the majority's view.

Polls are contradictory when the public opinion is such.

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.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.