The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin 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
“Long ago, I believed that, given a choice, peple would turn to good as they would turn to light. I believed that… — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
“I readily discovered the prodigious influence that this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society; it gives a peculiar direction… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. — Winston Churchill 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
When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion. — David A. Bednar 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
“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
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
Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
“What is the Liberty of the Press? Who can give it any definition which does not leave the utmost latitude for evasion?… — David Alan Corbin Copy Share Image
“I will no longer let the fear of vicious comments or replies stop me from speaking what I believe to be right.… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ability of the Malay political leadership through UMNO to mobilize Malay public opinion caught the British by surprise. A people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
