Public Opinion Quotes - Page 4

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

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.

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

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.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.

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.

The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

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

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.

All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

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

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.