I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
“When I left America I understood the formation of public opinion in Southeast Asia. I had had the best course possible, taught… — Carol Hollinger Copy Share Image
To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
“But there is some connection between critically distancing oneself from prevailing popular opinion and a level of moral conscientiousness that comes to… — Lawrence Vogel Copy Share Image
“That is not quite true. At least not all the time. News outlets can and likely do sway public opinion all the… — Pete Thorsen Copy Share Image
“The other pioneer of political public relations was Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, who sharpened his skills writing prowar propaganda… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“So, if people don't want a war - are opposed to a war - how do you get away with it? You… — Sibel Hodge Copy Share Image
“A true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it. It is an essential integrant part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“There was frequently a moral lesson lurking just below the surface in Hayek’s accounts, usually having to do with Keynes’s overweening self-… — Bruce Caldwell Copy Share Image
To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I want to remind people that the Nazis weren't able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately. The German people wouldn't… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“can impose sanctions only in limited circumstances, and in the past was often paralysed by the power of veto possessed by each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Under a parliamentary democracy, such as in France, political influence can be secured by using money to create favorable or unfavorable public… — Günter Reimann Copy Share Image
Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth… — Muriel Lester Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As to whether I will ever get out, it will obviously take some large measures of public opinion because the judiciary system… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of… — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I readily discovered the prodigious influence that this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society; it gives a peculiar direction… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS> LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS> POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS> VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION>… — William J Federer Copy Share Image