Top 25 Public Opinion Quotes of 210 - Page 9

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.

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

Views, Public Opinion, Crime

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.

Anna Faris

Hurt, Trying, Public Opinion

Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. April 7, 2009.

What is likely to happen? Either an escalation of violence or an entire change in the whole Middle East theater. It may well happen, and I say this to my Palestinian friends, that the Palestinians have in a certain way missed their hour. They had their moment when the world's public opinion was behind them, and a considerable part of the Israeli public was willing to compromise with them.

Amos Oz

Middle East, Public Opinion, World

Source: www.spiegel.de

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters

Alfred Russel Wallace

Marriage, Law, Public Opinion

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

Hands, Two, Public Opinion

Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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

Wisdom Experience, Public Opinion, Oracles

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

Alexander Hamilton

Light, Public Opinion, Needs

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.25

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Albert Einstein

Peace, War, Public Opinion

Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.111, Broadway Books

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

Democracy, Public Opinion, Input