Public Opinion Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

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!

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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.

Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.

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

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

Public opinion is a second conscience.

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

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.

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.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.