Catastrophe Quote by Frederic Bastiat

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well…

— Thomas Jefferson

“What should worry us is not the number of people who oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so. We should…

— Alain de Botton

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

— Stella Benson

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing…

— John Stuart Mill

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Robert Peel

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

— William Hazlitt

“The public can never know all the facts, ands public opinion is always swayed by passion, never by reason and the best interests of…

— Miklós Bánffy

Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so people may…

— Zicheng Hong

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.

— William Ralph Inge

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac