Daily Inspiration Quote by Dwight Schultz

Schultz’s line reads like a quietly paranoid memo slid across a diner table: belief isn’t just private conviction, it’s a force multiplier. Coming from an actor best known for embodying intense, suspicious intelligence, the quote plays with a familiar late-20th-century anxiety: that power doesn’t fear truth as much as it fears momentum. “Governments are moved by numbers” strips statecraft of nobility. Policy becomes crowd physics. If enough people publicly “admit” belief, the institution has to respond - not because it’s persuaded, but because it can’t afford the optics, the votes, the unrest, the headlines.

The shrewdest choice is the word “admit.” It suggests belief is socially risky, something you confess when you sense you’re no longer alone. That’s the engine of the quote: collective permission. Once the count is high enough, the cost of silence flips. Whistleblowers find courage, journalists find sources, officials start leaking to get ahead of the story, and the “secret” (Schultz can’t resist that loaded word) loses its protective shell.

The parenthetical - “if there is one being kept” - is a tell. It signals skepticism about conspiracy thinking while still indulging its narrative thrill. That hedging does double duty: it inoculates the speaker against sounding credulous, and it implies that even the possibility of concealment is politically potent. The subtext is less “the government lies” than “the government reacts,” and mass belief is the lever that makes it move.