We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion. — Baron Bonham-Carter Mark Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march… — Sean MacBride Copy Share Image
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion. — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion. — Noreena Hertz 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
I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Fritzsche, radio propaganda chief, by manipulation of the truth goaded German public opinion into frenzied support of the regime and anesthetized the… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in… — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think polling is important because it gives a voice to the people. It gives a quantitative, independent assessment of what the… — Andrew Kohut Copy Share Image
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“The many ... whom one chooses to call the people, are indeed a collection, but only as a multitude, a formless mass,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“The public can never know all the facts, ands public opinion is always swayed by passion, never by reason and the best… — Miklós Bánffy Copy Share Image
“But except for committed anarchists, the assassination attempt was widely condemned. In fact, it turned the tide of public opinion that, up… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
