“The fact is that our Union rests upon public opinion and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens...If it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
With a true Brexiteer at the helm, Parliament will have to start reflecting public opinion rather than flying in the face of… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to… — Bob Kerrey Copy Share Image
Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Greeks have to know that they are not alone ... Those who are fighting for the survivor of Greece inside the Euro… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“While the US stumped for the Bosnians, Russians defended the interests of Milošević (as distinct from the Bosnian Serb leader) and Germans… — Jan Willem Honig Copy Share Image
“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Finally, we arrive at the question of the so-called nonpolitical man. Hitler not only established his power from the very beginning with… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the… — Bertrand Russell 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
Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes… — Elaine Welteroth Copy Share Image
I try not to read newspapers when I have a movie coming out, but I guess I'm not immune to public opinion.… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Public opinion polls time and again show that honesty is among the top five characteristics people want in a leader, friend, or… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
“For certainly, at the level of social life, what is called the adjustment of man to his environment takes place through the… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
“What the public wants today and what it sees as important down the road will almost certainly not be the same.” — Gary Schmitt Copy Share Image
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image