Public opinion Quote by Émile Zola

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Everybody has the right to form their own opinion and read what they like and come to their own conclusion about it... I trust…

— Philip Pullman

“It is better to try to form a learned opinion than to dispense an ill-conceived one and rush to the judgment of others.”

— Dodinsky

“In matters of crime, where there is danger for the culprit, it is self-interest that dictates confessions; where the offence incurs no penalty, it…

— Marcel Proust

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

“You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other peoples’ opinions.”

— Mark Manson

“Opinions are caught like infection, and put into practice without examination.”

— Honoré de Balzac

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

“I wish there were strict laws to stop people from corrupting other people's mind with their negativity thus influencing them to form biased opinion…

— Arti Honrao

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck

“It is dangerous not to conform with people's image of us, because they do not readily retract their opinions.”

— Jean Cocteau

“Did his crime give others some kind of implicit permission to behave the same way, reverberating on and on into the future?”

— Elizabeth Garden