I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
“Chamfort, echoing the misanthropic attitude of generations of philosophers before and after him, put the matter simply: ‘Public opinion is the worst… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those… — Dilma Rousseff Copy Share Image
In 2017, there was a sudden recognition of several adverse societal consequences of information technology, from job losses due to automation to… — Moshe Vardi Copy Share Image
Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes. Flooding, storms, droughts are all getting people talking about climate change. I… — David Titley Copy Share Image
Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
There are by now declassified documents from the 1950s that tells you a lot about what's going on in Egypt and we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I finish writing the emails and send them. I check that Yulia has access to the banking apps-a fairly pointless exercise because… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“There’s a voice that says: "So what?" It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“No matter what they do, our elected representatives don’t give a fuck anymore about public opinion! They take drugs, frequent whores, rob,… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
“We're trying to win the right to vote and we have to focus the attention of the world on that. We can't… — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march… — Sean MacBride Copy Share Image
“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion. — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion. — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion. — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
