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The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time… — Hjalmar Branting
Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account. — Jacques Necker
Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool,… — Michael Anti
Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a… — Elif Batuman
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. — Albert J. Nock
Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum… — Thomas Carlyle
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on… — Walter Lippmann
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly… — Aleister Crowley
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. — Samuel Johnson
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it. — Madame de Stael
So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it… — Byron York
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of… — George Washington
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
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a… — Isaac Asimov
Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not. — Andy Andrews
American public opinion, as you can see in the polls, radically changed from being against airstrikes to being heavily in favor that [President Obama] decided… — Charles Krauthammer
Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt… — Clifford Allbutt
In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not… — Swami Vivekananda
The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion. — David A. Bednar
My wife and I have just returned from Belgium where, courtesy of the hotel TV, we acquired a new perspective on the Iraq war. The… — David Walker
When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his… — Zhuangzi
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public… — Albert Einstein
That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. — Thomas Huxley

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