#2,885

Public political discussion is not intellectually adult in any country.

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#2,868

The glory of the truly great writers is a glory artificially imposed on the public, an academic and subsidized glory.
Authentic, popular, spontaneous glory crowns none but mediocre men.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459

#2,866

Modern man believes he lives amidst a pluralism of opinions, when what prevails today is a stifling unanimity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459

#2,452

The public does not begin to welcome an idea except when intelligent contemporaries begin to abandon it.
No light reaches the masses but that of dead stars.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,086

The voice of God does not echo today among craggy peaks; it thunders among the percentages in public opinion polls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 338

#1,532

Public opinion today is not the sum of personal opinions.
Personal opinions, on the contrary, are the echo of public opinion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 256

#1,495

After the intelligent opinions have been excluded from the opinions of an age, what is left over is “public opinion.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 251

#589

Whoever feels he is the spokesman of public opinion has been enslaved.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 110

#426

The whims of the incompetent crowd are called public opinion, and the expert’s judgments private opinion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 85

#363

Collective representations, today, are opinions which the organs of propaganda impose.
The collective, today, is not what many sell, but what many buy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 76