Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns among the stupid. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“Public opinion polls time and again show that honesty is among the top five characteristics people want in a leader, friend, or… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
“There are only two ultimate public powers in shaping and running American cities: votes and control of the money. To sound nicer,… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is… — Yair Lapid 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
The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
“An unusual chain-letter reached Quincy during the latter part of 1933,” wrote a local Illinois historian. “So rapidly did the chain-letter fad… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“We're trying to win the right to vote and we have to focus the attention of the world on that. We can't… — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr 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
“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
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can‚Äôt think of… — Roberto Bola√±o Copy Share Image
And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion. — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
“One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public… — Barbara Dana Copy Share Image
