Force Quote by George F. Kennan

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 the greatest force for good, when it happens to be on our side

— William Gilmore Simms

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond…

— Alan Blinder

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Sybille Bedford

Public opinion isn't formed independently, but driven by narratives from the political class and the media.

— Dawn Foster

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

— Anonymous

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Robert Peel

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

— Baron Bonham-Carter Mark Bonham Carter

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

— Henry David Thoreau