Indolence Quote by Georg Brandes Download Open image “What is public opinion? It is private indolence.” — Georg Brandes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Indolence Opinion Public opinion
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The historian is looked upon as objective when he measures the past by the popular opinions of his own time, as subjective when he… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man ... First, Rousseau's man, the Titan who raises… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing… — Polybius Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
