Public Opinion Quotes - Page 5

Fritzsche, radio propaganda chief, by manipulation of the truth goaded German public opinion into frenzied support of the regime and anesthetized the independent judgment of the population so that they did without question their masters' bidding.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

The only remaining superpower is international public opinion.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.

We've seen in terms of the reaction to some proposals in the Budget already how resistant that public opinion is to, first of all, a public comprehension of the new paradigm in which we have to operate; and secondly, to the rationale for the decisions that we're taking and the reason for those decisions to be implemented and followed through.