If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of… — Thomas Jefferson 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
I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
With a true Brexiteer at the helm, Parliament will have to start reflecting public opinion rather than flying in the face of… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. — Tullian Tchividjian 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
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Arab public opinion does not regard Iran as a hostile entity. In fact it's so supportive of Iran that a majority would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments… — Enrico Letta Copy Share Image
Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables.… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
I, however, fear that at some future point there will possibly be concerted backlash against us because of our successes in business… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Under fascism, it is not primarily the power of money which corrupts, but rather does corruption spring from the power of the… — Günter Reimann Copy Share Image
I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“General Jacques de Bollardière, a distinguished soldier who had fought in Norway, at El Alamein, with the maquis in the Ardennes as… — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
“Public opinion polls time and again show that honesty is among the top five characteristics people want in a leader, friend, or… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public… — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD. — Brianna Keilar Copy Share Image
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
“I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken… — Santiago Roncagliolo Copy Share Image
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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