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296 Public Opinion quotes by 220 unique authors
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
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Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public…
— James F. Cooper
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I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public…
— Bernard Nathanson
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There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense…
— Gene Sharp
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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the…
— Johan Huizinga
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The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but…
— Albert Schweitzer
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It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the…
— Edward Bernays
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Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve cell…
— Joost Meerloo
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We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those…
— Albert Einstein
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Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
— George Orwell
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate…
— Adam Weishaupt
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Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to…
— Alan Blinder
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This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country,…
— John Doolittle
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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into…
— B. Carroll Reece
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REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.
— Helen Caldicott
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Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
— Frank B. Kellogg
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We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
— Ernestine Rose
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The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve.
— Rob Kampia
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
— Timothy Thomas Fortune
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Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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