Quote by Walter Benjamin
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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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin

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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – 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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Someones opinion of you does not have to become your reality. – Les Brown

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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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