Public opinion is the greatest force for good, when it happens to be on our side — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account. — Raymond Barre Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“We countenance each other in this life of show, puffing, advertisement, and manufacture of public opinion; and excellence is lost sight of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The President would lead U.S. public opinion by defining the economic price Americans would have to pay if Hitler conquered Europe.” — William Stevenson Copy Share Image
Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Public opinion isn't formed independently, but driven by narratives from the political class and the media. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
There's no question that public opinion is changing, and if you're a person of the left, your goal is presumably to try… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I, however, fear that at some future point there will possibly be concerted backlash against us because of our successes in business… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments… — Enrico Letta Copy Share Image
Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables.… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of… — James Madison 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
“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
“The public can never know all the facts, ands public opinion is always swayed by passion, never by reason and the best… — Miklós Bánffy Copy Share Image
Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“The many ... whom one chooses to call the people, are indeed a collection, but only as a multitude, a formless mass,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion. — Dan Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image