No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities... — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to… — Bob Kerrey Copy Share Image
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom,… — Louisa May Alcott 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
Greeks have to know that they are not alone ... Those who are fighting for the survivor of Greece inside the Euro… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
“But except for committed anarchists, the assassination attempt was widely condemned. In fact, it turned the tide of public opinion that, up… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“No matter what they do, our elected representatives don’t give a fuck anymore about public opinion! They take drugs, frequent whores, rob,… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
“There’s a voice that says: "So what?" It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“All Nazi champions insist again and again that Marxism and Bolshevism are the quintessence of the Jewish mind, and that it is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think polling is important because it gives a voice to the people. It gives a quantitative, independent assessment of what the… — Andrew Kohut Copy Share Image
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average… — W R Inge Copy Share Image
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion. — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1… — Dick Morris 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 is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
“We're trying to win the right to vote and we have to focus the attention of the world on that. We can't… — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
