There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Interviews and public opinion about me never mattered. I know exactly who I am. — Namrata Shirodkar Copy Share Image
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account. — Jacques Necker Copy Share Image
I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
So Putin is not the dictator that he's often accused of being. He has to be very sensitive to public opinion. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
“Public opinion can often be swayed by emotion with little regard for facts. If the story is fascinating enough, facts may not… — Chris Grabenstein Copy Share Image
O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion. — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed… — Alan Blinder Copy Share Image
“To be an anarchist is to leave the beaten paths on which for hundreds of years generations of sheep have walked without… — John Merriman Copy Share Image
In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We've seen in terms of the reaction to some proposals in the Budget already how resistant that public opinion is to, first… — Brian Cowen Copy Share Image
What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should… — Patrice O'Neal Copy Share Image
We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
“First there was Caine’s patently false “confession.” Then there was the fact that the FAYZ Legal Defense Fund racked up three million… — Michael Grant 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
“The real enemies, he suggested, were “the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences,”… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising,… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Well, I think the most realistic ways to keep them [Saddam Hussien & Slobadon Milisevic] isolated in the world of public opinion… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image