Public Opinion Quotes

Public Opinion Quote of the day

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

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

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

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

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.

Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

In America, public opinion is the leader

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing