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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
Interviews and public opinion about me never mattered. I know exactly who I am.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.
Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.
I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.
I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.
It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.
The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.