{"quotes":[{"text":"The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["art","conformism","criticism","english-literature","humor","individualism","individuality","poetry","poets","public-opinion","true-that"],"id":4667,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"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":"No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["democracy","gullibility","public-opinion"],"id":22332,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through the lyrics I write and the pictures I've been in. There is no old or new Hayley. There is however an older Hayley. I'm 25 now. Good on me for living through all these years with a million people's judging eyes all over me and thinking they know me better.","author":"Hayley Williams","tags":["change","growth","judgement","public-opinion"],"id":31061,"author_id":"Hayley+Williams"},{"text":"It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["branding","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","myles-munroe","opinion","personal-branding","personality","privacy","private","public","public-opinion","secrecy","tell-the-truth","who-are-you","who-you-are","who-you-really-are"],"id":36295,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.","author":"Allen Ginsberg","tags":["influence","public-opinion"],"id":44275,"author_id":"Allen+Ginsberg"},{"text":"You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.","author":"Jon Stewart","tags":["democracy","government","humor","politics","public-opinion"],"id":57022,"author_id":"Jon+Stewart"},{"text":"I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.","author":"Jack Williamson","tags":["drama","knowledge","public-opinion"],"id":124001,"author_id":"Jack+Williamson"},{"text":"Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.","author":"Nicolas Chamfort","tags":["opinion","public-opinion","society"],"id":124564,"author_id":"Nicolas+Chamfort"},{"text":"A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything’s questioned.","author":"Louise Penny","tags":["history","movements","public-opinion"],"id":132857,"author_id":"Louise+Penny"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}