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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. – Walter Benjamin

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. – Walter Benjamin

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

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Public opinion is a second conscience. – William R. Alger

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have. – Samuel Butler

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Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us. – Marcus Antonius

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. – Walter Bagehot

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