Bases Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

— Robert Peel

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

— Sybille Bedford

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

— Walter Benjamin

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

— William Hazlitt

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

— Mark Twain

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

— Anonymous

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

— Henrik Ibsen

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

— Elbert Hubbard

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

— Gore Vidal

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

— Andy Andrews