“{ Colonel Carr's testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the… — Eugene Asa Carr Copy Share Image
“General Jacques de Bollardière, a distinguished soldier who had fought in Norway, at El Alamein, with the maquis in the Ardennes as… — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
“What I can do is the only limit of what I may do. Because we are gregarious we live in society, and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The notion of carefully wrought bullshit involves, then, a certain inner strain. Thoughtful attention to detail requires discipline and objectivity. It entails… — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Well, I think the most realistic ways to keep them [Saddam Hussien & Slobadon Milisevic] isolated in the world of public opinion… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising,… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
“First there was Caine’s patently false “confession.” Then there was the fact that the FAYZ Legal Defense Fund racked up three million… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“The real enemies, he suggested, were “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences,”… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Long ago, I believed that, given a choice, peple would turn to good as they would turn to light. I believed that… — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
“Most Russian girls usually only go in for Platonic attachments with never a thought of marriage. And Platonic love is the most… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
Whether we're talking about what the role of the government is, what you think of the United Nations, political leaders or how… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
“The Arab world has done nothing to help the Palestinian refugees they created when they attacked Israel in 1948. It’s called the… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the… — David Walker Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes. She can give… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The ability of the Malay political leadership through UMNO to mobilize Malay public opinion caught the British by surprise. A people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image