Confused Quote by Richard Brookhiser

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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 don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.

— Brian Fallon

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Sybille Bedford

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

— Thomas Carlyle

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

— Henrik Ibsen

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

— Alfred Austin

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

— Marco Rubio

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

— Winston Churchill

Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.

— Seth Godin