Average Quote by William Ralph Inge

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man

— W R Inge

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

— Robert Peel

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

— Georg Brandes

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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

— Oscar Wilde

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation…

— Karl Jaspers

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The…

— John Stuart Mill

“Chamfort, echoing the misanthropic attitude of generations of philosophers before and after him, put the matter simply: ‘Public opinion is the worst of all…

— Alain de Botton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton