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Public Opinion Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
More Public Opinion Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Warren Beatty
- It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate… — 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… — Bono
- The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of… — 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… — 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… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. — Noam Chomsky