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