Generations Quote by Theodore C. Sorensen

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

— Gore Vidal

“When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the…

— G.K. Chesterton

In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion…

— Noam Chomsky

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

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected…

— John Stuart Mill

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

— Anonymous

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion

— Voltaire

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Robert Peel

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those…

— Benjamin F. Wade