I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted. — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes. — David Titley Copy Share Image
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits. — Emile Capouya Copy Share Image
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There is no clear cutline between a loser and a winner only that the loser rarely recognises his loss unless judged in… — Teguleskuchana Copy Share Image
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
“It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through the lyrics… — Hayley Williams 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
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they… — Reid Ribble Copy Share Image
Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
“The average woman is far braver than the average man. The common kind of courage-that of the soldier who disregards the danger… — Alfred B. Douglas 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
“But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Do you still believe i public opinion? Well let me tell you public opinion is a gimmick thought up by the English… — Antonio Tabucci Copy Share Image
“It is just the same with the so-called criminals living in our midst. To bring these people under the sway of Christianity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Interviews and public opinion about me never mattered. I know exactly who I am. — Namrata Shirodkar Copy Share Image
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image