Private Opinion Quotes

15 quotes by 10 authors

• Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. — Henry Ward Beecher
• Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — Mark Twain
• Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the… — Fanny Burney
• Every reform was once a private opinion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That… — Jan Struther
• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words… — Winston Churchill
• They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. — Thomas Hobbes
• I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for… — Patrick O'Brian
• When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things… — Anne Bronte
• See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his… — Henry David Thoreau
• Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. — Henry David Thoreau
• Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates… — Henry David Thoreau

Who Wrote These Private Opinion Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 15 Private Opinion Quotes as follows:

• 3 Private Opinion Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 3 Private Opinion Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Private Opinion Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
• 1 Private Opinion Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Private Opinion Quote by Fanny Burney
• 1 Private Opinion Quote by Jan Struther
• 1 Private Opinion Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Private Opinion Quote by Thomas Hobbes
• 1 Private Opinion Quote by Patrick O'Brian
• 1 Private Opinion Quote by Anne Bronte