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
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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
— Timothy Thomas Fortune
They all laughed at Christopher ColumbusWhen he said the world was round. — Ira Gershwin
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
Public opinion doesn't exist. More precisely, it exists sometimes, concerning matters about which there's a clear majority view. — Jordan Ellenberg
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. — Bruce Jackson
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
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do. — Mahatma Gandhi
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. — Mark Twain
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women. — Kate Smith
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 opinion is a second conscience. — William R. Alger
Religion of the masses is absurd. But so is their science! — Raheel Farooq
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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
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
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion. — Martin O'Malley
The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid. — Paul Collier
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
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. — Joseph Goebbels
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion. — Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter
If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion. — Farrah Gray
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
Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. — Noam Chomsky
The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion. — Walter Lippmann
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system. — Suetonius
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. — Albert Einstein
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public? — Rudyard Kipling
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war. — James Buchanan
Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing. — Michael Moore
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. — William Hazlitt
Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet. — Andrew Rosenthal
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. — Dan Rather
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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
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. — Napoleon Bonaparte
With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion. — Noreena Hertz
In America, public opinion is the leader. — Frances Perkins
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. — Gore Vidal
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. — Thomas Jefferson
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. — Hubert H. Humphrey
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
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
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher
The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion. — Sunday Adelaja
They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. — Charles William Eliot
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not. — Andy Andrews
It was just public opinion in an acute state of indigestion. — William Faulkner
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
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few. — Elbert Hubbard
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion. — Charles Bradlaugh
I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls. — Dick Cheney
Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues.[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] — William Shakespeare
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class. — Walter Lippmann
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. — Elbert Hubbard
I am crushed by your poor opinionBut will endeavor to carry on. — Amanda Quick
Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
