Public Opinion Quotes

Public opinion in this country is everything.
Abraham Lincoln

Everything, Country, Opinion

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill

Opinion, Public, Published

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Opinion, Public, Alien

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

Respect, Opinion, Keep

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama

Success, Politics, Remember

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Cannot, Opinion, American

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Opinion, Public, Consult

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur

War, Cannot, Opinion

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh

Faith, Opinion, Public

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice

Wise, Opinion, Decisions

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry A. Kissinger

Opinion, Public, Leaders

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

History, Death, Opinion

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
Marco Rubio

Leadership, Society, Live

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin

Opinion, Public

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
Rush Limbaugh

Opinion, Another, Used

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

Opinion, Public, Hold

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
Christopher Hitchens

Made, Why, Opinion

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Men, Courage, Opinion

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.
Stephen Harper

Focus, Opinion, Stand

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
Spiro T. Agnew

Great, Power, Made

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann

Nature, Good, Opinion

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

Life, Person, 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.
Walter Bagehot

Men, Words, Thoughts

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Nicolas Chamfort

Opinion, Times, Public

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

Government, Bad, Opinion

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Walter Benjamin

Attitude, Someone, Opinion

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
Dan Rather

Government, Opinion, Public

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.
James F. Cooper

Men, Law, Opinion

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
Noam Chomsky

Opinion, Public, Media

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
J. B. Priestley

Time, Children, Opinion

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