Adequate Quote by Ernestine Rose

“Public opinion is less tolerant than any system of law.”

— George Orwell

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

— Henrik Ibsen

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 weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

— Henry David Thoreau

You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

— Rachel Field

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

— Wendell Phillips

My opinion is not valuable to the general public.

— Willam Belli

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

— William Hazlitt

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

— George F. Kennan

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

— Elbert Hubbard

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

— Thomas Jefferson