There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns among the stupid. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
“Chamfort, echoing the misanthropic attitude of generations of philosophers before and after him, put the matter simply: ‘Public opinion is the worst… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't… — John Key Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to stand at the bar of public opinion and receive the verdict of condemnation; but what will it… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion… — Jose Maria Aznar Copy Share Image
“The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is just the same with the so-called criminals living in our midst. To bring these people under the sway of Christianity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The people have only a very vague direct power. They have the power of voting against the administration, again after its decisions… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image