Public Opinion Quotes

296 quotes by 220 authors

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on… — Michelle Bachelet
I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant… — Warren Beatty
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the… — Walter Benjamin
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say… — Unknown Author
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more… — Spiro T. Agnew
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. — Warren Buffett
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best… — Martin Van Buren
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. — Noam Chomsky
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. — Winston Churchill
The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The… — Thomas Jefferson
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing… — Norman Angell
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects… — John D. Rockefeller
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. — Wendell Phillips
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. — Mark Twain
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. — Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. — William Hazlitt

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