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Walter Benjamin : It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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Niccolo Machiavelli : " Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. " # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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Learned Hand : " The day has clearly gone forever of societies small enough for their members to have personal acquaintance with one another, and to find their station through the appraisal of those who have first hand knowledge of them. Publicity is an evil substitute and the art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, every year adds to its potency and to the finality of its judgments. The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country whether we like it or not, we must learn to accept it. " # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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George Seldes : " Forbidden to write anything critical of the Fascist regime, they could only report what the hierarchy wanted them to report. The clever and honest American and British journalists, however, did insinuate startling facts in their stories; these insinuations, unfortunately, were between the lines and not for those who read as they run, and the American public is mostly a running reading public. " # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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Gore Vidal : " At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. " # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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Gilbert K Chesterton : " Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion. " # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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Margot Asquith : " Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public. " # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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Christopher Lasch : " The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. " # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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James H Robinson : " We have unprecedented conditions to deal with and novel adjustments to make -- there can be no doubt of that. We also have a great stock of scientific knowledge unknown to our grandfathers with which to operate. So novel are the conditions, so copious the knowledge, that we must undertake the arduous task of reconsidering a great part of the opinions about man and his relations to his fellow men which have been handed down to us by previous generations who lived in far other conditions and possessed far less information about the world and themselves. We have, however, first to create an unprecedented attitude of mind to cope with unprecedented conditions, and to utilize unprecedented knowledge. " # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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Arthur Gordon : " At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. " # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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William R Alger : " Public opinion is a second conscience. " # Media # Arts and Artists # Opinions

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Walter Benjamin: " The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope." # Relationships # Love # Hope

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Walter Benjamin: " Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom." # Advice # Wisdom # Fiction

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Walter Benjamin: " Books and harlots have their quarrels in public." # Debate # Books - Reading # Quarrels

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Walter Benjamin: " The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble." # Destructiveness # Character # Suicide

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Walter Benjamin: " He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest." # Etiquette # Fashion # Dress

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Walter Benjamin: " Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn." # Experience # Beauty # Friends and Friendship

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Walter Benjamin: " The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions." # Facts # Power # Life and Living

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Walter Benjamin: " Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received." # Food and Eating # Friends and Friendship # Leaders and Leadership

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Walter Benjamin: " Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." # Giving # Freedom # Power

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Walter Benjamin: " We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations." # Life and Living # Enemies # Critics and Criticism

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