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What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. — Benjamin Disraeli
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. — Oscar Wilde
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 and what is… — George Eliot
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a… — Mark Twain
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the… — Fisher Ames
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force… — George Washington
It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to… — Mikhail Gorbachev
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be… — Thomas Jefferson
They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time.… — Ariel Sharon
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that… — James Russell Lowell
Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless. — Horace Greeley
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will… — Mark Twain
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness… — Thomas Carlyle
The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too… — Joseph Story
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation. — Thomas Paine
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison
Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself. — James Madison
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson

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