Quotes and Sayings About Public Opinion
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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!
-- Adolf Hitler -
Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].
-- Alan Blinder -
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
-- Albert J. Nock -
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
-- Albrecht Durer -
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But there remains to be mentioned a positive advantage . . . I allude to the circumstance of uniformity in the time of elections for the House of Representatives. It is more than possible, that this uniformity may be found by experience to be of great importance to the public welfare; both as a security against the perpetuation of the same spirit in the body; and as a cure for the diseases of faction.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.
-- Andy Andrews -
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.
-- Asa Larsson -
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
-- Augustus Hare -
I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.
-- Barbara Dana -
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
-- Bertrand Russell -
We have seen already how resistant public opinion is, firstly to comprehension of the new paradigm in which we have to operate; and secondly, to the rationale behind the decisions we have had to take.
-- Brian Cowen -
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
-- Charles Bradlaugh -
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation
-- Charles Evans Hughes -
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
-- Charles Sumner -
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
-- Dan Rather -
The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.
-- David A. Bednar -
Politicians have responsibility to act if the public opinion changes.
-- David Titley -
I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.
-- Dick Cheney -
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
-- Dick Morris -
the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers -
Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
-- Elbert Hubbard
