Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“When I left America I understood the formation of public opinion in Southeast Asia. I had had the best course possible, taught… — Carol Hollinger Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in… — Lizz Winstead 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
With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline… — Fabrizio Moreira 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
“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
I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. The working… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
“The other pioneer of political public relations was Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, who sharpened his skills writing prowar propaganda… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But there is some connection between critically distancing oneself from prevailing popular opinion and a level of moral conscientiousness that comes to… — Lawrence Vogel Copy Share Image
“That is not quite true. At least not all the time. News outlets can and likely do sway public opinion all the… — Pete Thorsen 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
“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In democracies, by contrast, the propaganda of the press and public opinion relentlessly promised servants that they, too, could reach the pinnacles… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
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
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
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
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Under a parliamentary democracy, such as in France, political influence can be secured by using money to create favorable or unfavorable public… — Günter Reimann Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth… — Muriel Lester 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
We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
![“One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ab/barack-obama-17_abraham_one-of-the-things-that-you-learn-having_504252.jpg)
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