With Donald J. Trump's arrival to power, many feel astonished by the growth of populism. Others analyze with extreme care the decline… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ignoring party leaders in order to sway public opinion may work in countries where elected representatives are responsive to their constituencies. But… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
“Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“When I left America I understood the formation of public opinion in Southeast Asia. I had had the best course possible, taught… — Carol Hollinger Copy Share Image
To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“radicals in Congress refused to back down, bringing virtually the entire federal government to a halt for sixteen days in October, leaving… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“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
“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
“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
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction,… — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
In fact, it's pretty dramatic when you get to 1975, very revealing, the [Vietnam] war ends. Everybody had to write something about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In American life, democracy and capitalism, despite their advantages, tend to erode the place of traditional authorities (families, religious faith, and other… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
'2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he… — George Gallup Copy Share Image
This is God's standards [against same-sex marriage and abortions]. And just because public opinion may have changed or somebody takes a poll… — Franklin Graham 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
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“And had everything necessary to the Modern Man, A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire. Our researchers into Public Opinion… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one… — Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence Copy Share Image
What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
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