There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“It took guts to ignore public opinion and do what you thought was right.” — Randy Singer Copy Share Image
Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion. — Baron Bonham-Carter Mark Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways that public opinion will neither comprehend nor welcome.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each… — Euripides Copy Share Image
All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
“We have a flabby public opinion which would wring its hands in anguish if we took the labor leader by the scruff… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The… — Eric Foner 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
“The earth will probably sink and drown; but at least it will be the result of generally acknowledged political and economic ideas,… — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I think polling is the best way of gauging public opinion - doing something that's independent, that's quantitative, that doesn't give just… — Andrew Kohut Copy Share Image
“adult men enjoy having sex with one another, and they don’t harm anyone while doing so, why should it be wrong, and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Empire had a clutch of missiles which were generally reckoned to be inoperable, and probably were politically unusable anyway because they were… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Most foolishly, liberals grew increasingly reliant on the courts to circumvent the legislative process when it failed to deliver what they wanted… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“The popular social network Twitter is handing over to data scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s famed Media Lab every message… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians, and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ignorance’ is probably the best word to describe public opinion on dietary fat, Harcombe said.” — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the greatest force for good, when it happens to be on our side — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A wise man makes his own decisions,but an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
