Walter Benjamin Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• 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

  Oil, Doe, Machines

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.21, Harvard University Press

• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  Walter Benjamin

  Judging, Public Opinion, Matter

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.433, Harvard University Press

• 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.

  Walter Benjamin

  Attitude, Media, Judging

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.433, Harvard University Press

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