Public Opinion Quotes - Page 2

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [...] All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.

Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

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

There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

As to whether I will ever get out, it will obviously take some large measures of public opinion because the judiciary system of America is totally interlaced with bureaucratic influences that perpetuate FBI control over judges, prosecutors and court proceedings.

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

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.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.