A wise man makes his own decisions,but an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful… — Frederic Bastiat 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
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to… — Djemal Pasha Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD. — Brianna Keilar 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
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“To be an anarchist is to leave the beaten paths on which for hundreds of years generations of sheep have walked without… — John Merriman 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
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it. — Anatole France 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
If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run… — Tariq Ramadan 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
“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“A true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it. It is an essential integrant part… — Edmund Burke 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
