John Brunner on what people want, mainly (nonfiction)

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"What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree." —John Brunner.

John Brunner, in his novel The Jagged Orbit, writes:

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

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The phrase is in the form of an epigram attributed to fictional character Xavier Conroy.

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