Public Opinion Quotes

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

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

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

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

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.

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

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

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

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

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

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.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way, he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

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

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

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