“(O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the… — Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed introduction to Censored 2013 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
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.” — Thomas Jefferson 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
“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
The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [...] All… — Valery Giscard d'Estaing Copy Share Image
“Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much. — Abraham Lincoln 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
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
“Those who based decisions on principle, not some snapshot of public opinion, were often vindicated over time.” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in… — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Yes, I may be considered an enemy of woman; but if I can help her see the light, I shall not complain.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
