“World opinion”—that vapid, amoral concept— deems the murder of members of one’s group less noteworthy than the murder of outsiders. That is one reason blacks killing millions of fellow blacks in Congo elicits virtually no attention from “world opinion.” Between 1998 and 2008, according to the International Rescue Committee, 5.4 million people in Congo were killed, and virtually no one in the world knows this. But if a few Iraqi prisoners are sexually humiliated in an American-run prison, or if one Palestinian dies at the hands of an Israeli soldier, the story is on the front pages of the world’s newspapers.” Media BiasWorld Opinion Book:Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph Source: Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
“But I suppose you have found out your mistake, my dear,[...] and that is a proof of sanity.’ ‘No,[...] I still think that the greater part of the world is mistaken about many things. Surely one may be sane and yet think so, since the greater part of the world has often had to come runs from its opinion.” World Opinion Book:Middlemarch Source: Middlemarch