In fact, it's pretty dramatic when you get to 1975, very revealing, the [Vietnam] war ends. Everybody had to write something about… — Noam Chomsky 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
There's no question that public opinion is changing, and if you're a person of the left, your goal is presumably to try… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the reader is astonished by the frankness with which I expose and emphasize my mediocrity; let him remember that frankness is… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“For decades, the environmental movement had enjoyed bipartisan support. As public opinion mounted in favor of climate action, however, the fossil fuel… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
We were very effective, and I was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns. But there were big stretches, while… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
As a public official, when I take a position, I stand up to explain and defend it. I file annual financial disclosures,… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes… — Elaine Welteroth Copy Share Image
“There’s a voice that says: "So what?" It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born.… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
The court of public opinion should not matter, but we're all human. And sometimes things sting. But I think you have to… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no… — Oscar Wilde 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
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
