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Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid. — Nicolas Chamfort

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

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit. — Samuel R. Delany

Never confuse truth and the latest public opinion poll. — Orrin Woodward

Those who based decisions on principle, not some snapshot of public opinion, were often vindicated over time. — George W. Bush

I have a vital need for peace. I seek no personal end, no approval from public opinion. Everything now is a struggle with myself. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace. — William Cobbett

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

The intelligent minority are a "specialized class" who are responsible for setting policy and for "the formation of a sound public opinion, — Noam Chomsky

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

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. — Terry Goodkind

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson

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. — Anna Faris

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. — Henry Ward Beecher

The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits. — Paul Collier

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

Historically, both fear and public opinion were notoriously unconcerned about morality. — Arthur C. Clarke

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. — Samuel Butler

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. — Albert Einstein

No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion. — Joyce Carol Oates

Public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good. — Sybille Bedford

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

I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken favorably. — Santiago Roncagliolo

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her. — E. M. Forster

Despite the well-deserved criticism, controlling public opinion became a central element in all future war planning. — Oliver Stone

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

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. — Gerald R. Ford

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

Israel does not care about the international public opinion. — Bashar Al-Assad

What is public opinion? It is private indolence. — Georg Brandes

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. — Timothy Thomas Fortune

The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master! — Adolf Hitler

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I represent the public, not public opinion. — Theodore Roosevelt

Don't be the victim of public opinion. — Sunday Adelaja

I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion. — Cory Bernardi

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. — Hubert H. Humphrey

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. — Thomas Jefferson

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

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. — Marco Rubio

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

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

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

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

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class. — Walter Lippmann

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.
[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] — William Shakespeare

I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls. — Dick Cheney

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion. — Charles Bradlaugh

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. — Elbert Hubbard

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

It was just public opinion in an acute state of indigestion. — William Faulkner

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not. — Andy Andrews

I am crushed by your poor opinion
But will endeavor to carry on. — Amanda Quick

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. — Charles William Eliot

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion. — Sunday Adelaja

Public opinion is a second conscience. — William R. Alger

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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. — William Bernbach

The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid. — Paul Collier

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion. — Martin O'Malley

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. — William Hazlitt

Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison

Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science! — Raheel Farooq

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion. — Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter

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

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women. — Kate Smith

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. — Mark Twain

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

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. — Abraham Lincoln

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. — Bruce Jackson

Public opinion doesn't exist. More precisely, it exists sometimes, concerning matters about which there's a clear majority view. — Jordan Ellenberg

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round. — Ira Gershwin

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. — Samuel Alito

With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion. — Noreena Hertz

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. — Napoleon Bonaparte

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities. — James Madison

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. — Dan Rather

Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet. — Andrew Rosenthal

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. — William Hazlitt

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing. — Michael Moore

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

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? — Rudyard Kipling

In America, public opinion is the leader. — Frances Perkins

But if you have an opinion, please feel free to offer it to me through the gap in the door of a public restroom. — Tina Fey

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system. — Suetonius

Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion. — Walter Lippmann

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

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. — Noam Chomsky

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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