“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 task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“The notion of carefully wrought bullshit involves, then, a certain inner strain. Thoughtful attention to detail requires discipline and objectivity. It entails… — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“The ability of the Malay political leadership through UMNO to mobilize Malay public opinion caught the British by surprise. A people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes. She can give… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Most Russian girls usually only go in for Platonic attachments with never a thought of marriage. And Platonic love is the most… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's… — Ted Gup 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
My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the… — David Walker Copy Share Image
Whether we're talking about what the role of the government is, what you think of the United Nations, political leaders or how… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
“The Arab world has done nothing to help the Palestinian refugees they created when they attacked Israel in 1948. It’s called the… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
“For certainly, at the level of social life, what is called the adjustment of man to his environment takes place through the… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“I was receiving at least ninety-nine incredible, positive, and life-changing responses for every negative or abusive one, yet I couldn’t stop looking… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“General Jacques de Bollardière, a distinguished soldier who had fought in Norway, at El Alamein, with the maquis in the Ardennes as… — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image