Action Quote by Harriet Martineau
“Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction.”
![“[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.” quote by Harriet Martineau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a0/harriet-martineau-6736_doe_i-wish-that-the-land-tax-went-a-little-m_297758.jpg)
