Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
This is our right [to vote]. I urge people to come out. This hasn't - you know, the courts of law have… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
“Those who based decisions on principle, not some snapshot of public opinion, were often vindicated over time.” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I wasn't alive when President Nixon was impeached, but I know that public opinion changed over time and that there was very… — Jessica Tarlov 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
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
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
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
The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of… — Charles Darwin 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
I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“But except for committed anarchists, the assassination attempt was widely condemned. In fact, it turned the tide of public opinion that, up… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on… — William Hazlitt 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
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
“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
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion. — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man --… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.” — Suetonius Copy Share Image
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can… — Bono Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion. — Ted Cruz 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
What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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