Doe Quote by Sybille Bedford Download Open image “public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.” — Sybille Bedford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Matter Opinion Public opinion
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
“Architecture without pain, art looked at in undiluted pleasure, enjoyment without anxiety, compunction, heartache: there is no beggar woman in the church door, no… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
“A devastating, a traumatic defeat, [to Germany] and the Danes might well have fallen into a Treaty of Versailles mentality. Mysteriously, they did not.… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
“War and the threat of war begin when all is not well at home. Countries that solve their own problems are no problem to… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they… — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one. — Sybille Bedford Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
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