Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Public opinion is no excuse for betraying your conscience. If the people don't like what he does, the can vote him out… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
“No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.” — Joyce Carol Oates 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
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
In my life right now, in my music, and just overall I feel like I'm winning. It doesn't matter what this person… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
Public opinion: May it always perform one of its appropriate offices, by teaching the public functionaries of the State and of the… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
“As though I had been going steadily downhill, imagining that I was going uphill. So it was in fact. In public opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A majority of Israelis want to give up the West Bank for peace, and obviously the same thing is desired by the… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [...] All… — Valery Giscard d'Estaing 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
“(O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the… — Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed introduction to Censored 2013 Copy Share Image
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Just as there are legal guidelines concerning the police use of provocateurs, there must be limits to how far the media can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
“Mr. Wilson, writing long before he became President, also knew how it came about that this Constitution, which the rich men of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come -… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's name is Public opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image