America Quote by Stendhal

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

— Robert Peel

France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to…

— Marine Le Pen

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French…

— Adam Michnik

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

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that…

— Francois Hollande

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

— Elbert Hubbard

It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to…

— Frederic Bastiat

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

— Henrik Ibsen

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

— Sybille Bedford

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

— Pamela Druckerman