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
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
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
I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
“27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in… — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Fritzsche, radio propaganda chief, by manipulation of the truth goaded German public opinion into frenzied support of the regime and anesthetized the… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“And don’t forget that it is the press, the pulpit, and the university that mould public opinion, set the thought-pace of the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him into by the way… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born.… — Oswald Spengler 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
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
“Are they not fresh and beautiful?" [Watson] cried... Holmes shook his head gravely. "... You look at these scattered houses, and you… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
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
“Healtheon was worth whatever investors felt like paying for it, and that depended largely on public opinion. Healtheon was running for president.… — Michael Lewis 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
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
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
As a public official, when I take a position, I stand up to explain and defend it. I file annual financial disclosures,… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The court of public opinion should not matter, but we're all human. And sometimes things sting. But I think you have to… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
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