Drink Quote by Walter Bagehot

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.

— Walter Lippmann

No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men…

— Charles James Fox

A man ain't got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views.

— Charles Dickens

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

— Mark Twain

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Men write more books. Men give more lectures. Men ask more questions after lectures. Men post more e-mail to Internet discussion groups. To say…

— Geoffrey Miller

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a…

— E. W. Howe

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

— Robert Peel

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

— George Santayana