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
“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
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I just want people to understand that life is very short. Never judge someone. I was judged in the court of public… — Kato Kaelin Copy Share Image
Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
I am sort of proud that I think radio has become a dominant influence in shaping public opinion. Good radio paints the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Years ago, it wasn't easy to communicate, and it wasn't easy to spread information. We were limited to the few media outlets… — Yasmine Elmasri 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
“In the process of building an inspiring and attractive alternative government, Liberals will not follow in Lord Derby's oft-quoted advice, given in… — Brendan Nelson 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
“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
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause… — Woodrow Wilson 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
“The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits.” — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
“Isaiah was certainly a courageous man. Unafraid to denounce kings and priests, and unwavering when public opinion went against him, he boldly… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come -… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
“I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
