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As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.
So Putin is not the dictator that he's often accused of being. He has to be very sensitive to public opinion.
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion.
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.
The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.
According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.
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.
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
With a true Brexiteer at the helm, Parliament will have to start reflecting public opinion rather than flying in the face of it.
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve.
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
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.
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD.
Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.
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.
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.
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.
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.