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
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
“For certainly, at the level of social life, what is called the adjustment of man to his environment takes place through the… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“What the public wants today and what it sees as important down the road will almost certainly not be the same.” — Gary Schmitt Copy Share Image
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
“It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through the lyrics… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us… — Alfred de Vigny 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
The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
American public opinion sees Arabs as terrorists and has the desert-man image about them. I wish the Americans would see Arabs and… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
“The notion of carefully wrought bullshit involves, then, a certain inner strain. Thoughtful attention to detail requires discipline and objectivity. It entails… — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
Today's public opinion, though it may appear as light as air, may be tomorrow's legislation-for better or for worse. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“It is a crime to mislead public opinion, to utilize for a deadly task this opinion which has been perverted until it… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
“Those who based decisions on principle, not some snapshot of public opinion, were often vindicated over time.” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
This is our right [to vote]. I urge people to come out. This hasn't - you know, the courts of law have… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Welsh rugby has done its dirty washing in public. It's nothing new. We're a tribal bunch. If warring parties want to sway… — Alun Wyn Jones Copy Share Image
“It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself." [ Speech… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image