Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A wise man makes his own decisions,but an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways that public opinion will neither comprehend nor welcome.” — James Dale Davidson 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
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate the power of public opinion and the eagerness of the people in charge to bow to it.” — Daniel Cole Copy Share Image
The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The earth will probably sink and drown; but at least it will be the result of generally acknowledged political and economic ideas,… — Karel Čapek Copy Share Image
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“We have a flabby public opinion which would wring its hands in anguish if we took the labor leader by the scruff… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When I had the job of police commissioner, 20 years ago, I was more sensitive, more cognizant of complaints and concerned about… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“What is the Liberty of the Press? Who can give it any definition which does not leave the utmost latitude for evasion?… — David Alan Corbin Copy Share Image
One needs but to study the directory of directories of the great business concerns of the country to determine the extent to… — Robert La Folette Copy Share Image
“If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and I were… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“All this is to offer the heresy that the role of presidential leadership, yet another shadow cast by the Roosevelt years, is… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
“Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“Public opinion! what class of men have an immense preponderance over the rest of the community, in their power of representing public… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is no clear cutline between a loser and a winner only that the loser rarely recognises his loss unless judged in… — Teguleskuchana Copy Share Image
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits. — Emile Capouya Copy Share Image
When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each… — Euripides Copy Share Image
