Discerning Quote by Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

— Robert Peel

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

— Henrik Ibsen

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

— Winston Churchill

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

— Walter Benjamin

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

— Mark Twain

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

— Henry David Thoreau

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

— Alfred Austin

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

— Anonymous

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

— Anonymous

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

— Sybille Bedford