{"quotes":[{"text":"The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["battleground","biase","biased","buttons","censor","censorship","circus","control","controlled","corruption","democracy","fake","government","government-corruption","guilty","illusion","influence","influential","innocent","internet","judge","judgment","manipulate","manipulated","net","orchestrate","perceive","perception","popular","popular-opinion","popularity","public-opinion","regulated","regulation","silence","skewed","slanted","trolls","viewpoint","war","web"],"id":22199,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","behavior","behaviour","character","commander","elect","elected","election","enthrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","function","grey-hair","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","pastor","personal-branding","popular-opinion","position","potential","purpose","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness","universal"],"id":75011,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","behavior","behaviour","character","commander","elect","elected","election","enthrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","function","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","pastor","personal-branding","popular-opinion","position","potential","purpose","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness","universal"],"id":79431,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","behavior","behaviour","character","commander","elect","elected","election","enthrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","function","grey-hair","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","others","pastor","personal-branding","popular-opinion","position","positions","positive","positively","potential","purpose","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","titles","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness","universal"],"id":89083,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The Christian writer will feel that in the greatest depth of vision, moral judgment will be implicit, and that when we are invited to represent the country according to survey, what we are asked to do is to separate mystery from manners and judgment from vision, in order to produce something a little more palatable to the modern temper. We are asked to form our consciences in the light of statistics, which is to establish the relative as absolute. For many this may be a convenience, since we don't live in an age of settled belief; but it cannot be a convenience, it cannot even be possible, for the writer who is a Catholic. He will feel that any long-continued service to it will produce a soggy, formless, and sentimental literature, one that will provide a sense of spiritual purpose for those who connect the spirit with romanticism and a sense of joy for those who confuse that virtue with satisfaction. The storyteller is concerned with what is; but if what is is what can be determined by survey, then the disciples of Dr. Kinsey and Dr. Gallup are sufficient for the day thereof.","author":"Flannery O'Connor","tags":["christian-writers","popular-books-and-","popular-opinion","statistics","storytelling","writers","writing"],"id":90932,"author_id":"Flannery+O%27Connor"},{"text":"I learnt that popular opinion is not necessarily the right opinion.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["food-for-thought","good","israelmore-ayivor","opinions","popular","popular-opinion","right"],"id":91998,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","behavior","behaviour","character","commander","elect","elected","election","enthrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","function","grey-hair","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","pastor","personal-branding","popular-opinion","position","potential","purpose","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness","universal"],"id":99152,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["bigotry","conformity","culture","cynicism","deep","development","exclusion","experience","exploration","funny","funny-but-true","humor","ignorance","ignorant","intelligence","introvert","isolation","knowledge","learning","life","living","naive","narrow-mindedness","notion","opinion","originality","parenting","people","popular","popular-opinion","positivity","preparation","rebel","secular","shallow","society","solitude","status-quo","teaching","travel","unique","vacation","wisdom","world"],"id":197263,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["acceptance","ask-questions","awaken","awakened","awakened-heart","awakened-soul","awakening","awakening-mind","aware","awareness","conscience","conscious","consciousness","dark","darkness","development","enlighten","experiences","illumination","individual","individualism","individuality","inquiring","knowledge","knowledge-power","lessons","lies","life","light","light-and-darkness","light","light","media","morality","philosophy","pop-culture","popular","popular-opinion","popularity","power","question-everything","questions","right-and-wrong","right-questions","seek-truth","seeker","seeking-answers","seeking-truth","sheep","sleeping","spiritual","spiritual-growth","spirituality","thinking","transcedental","transcendence","waking-up","wisdom","wrong"],"id":207798,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Carl Schmitt could boast with some justice that the Nazi revolution was orderly and disciplined. But the reason lies not so much within the Nazis themselves as in the lack of an effective opposition. For millions the Nazi ideology did assuage their anxiety, did end their alienation, and did give hope for a better future. Other millions watched passively, not deeply committed to resistance. 'Let them have a chance' was a typical attitude. Hitler took the chance and made the most of it.","author":"George L. Mosse","tags":["alienation","conformity","election","future","hitler","hope","nazism","political-apathy","popular-opinion"],"id":219256,"author_id":"George+L.+Mosse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}