Public Opinion Quotes

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

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

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

The course of business shapes public opinion.

Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.

I try not to read newspapers when I have a movie coming out, but I guess I'm not immune to public opinion. I'm hurt by it.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the late pope's followers believe he is already there.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.

Public opinion wins wars.

When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual.

I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

This is our right [to vote]. I urge people to come out. This hasn't - you know, the courts of law have refused to take this up in a just way. This needs to be decided in the court of public opinion.

Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.