Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It is a crime to mislead public opinion, to utilize for a deadly task this opinion which has been perverted until it… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily… — Ray Comfort 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
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in… — Alfred Russel Wallace 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
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Ignoring party leaders in order to sway public opinion may work in countries where elected representatives are responsive to their constituencies. But… — Denise Dresser 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
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
There's kind of a hidden point which isn't being brought out, and that is that it is inconceivable that the U.S. would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“How careful we must be not to think that God is less holy because others seem to get away with irreverence! We… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no… — Karl Jaspers 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
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
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion. — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image