Public Opinion Quotes

• The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Value
  • Things

• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opinion
  • Public Opinion

• The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Today
  • Pretty
  • Opinion

• No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

  

  Euripides
  • Free
  • Forces
  • Public Opinion

• Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Performance
  • Duties
  • Public Opinion

• No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Voice
  • Leaders
  • Believes

• When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Established
  • Public Opinion

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • House
  • Body
  • Lords

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Justice
  • Basis
  • Public Opinion

• The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Master
  • Servant
  • Public Opinion

• Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Society
  • Public Opinion
  • Satyagraha

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

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Cowards
  • Feeble

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Meaning
  • Aim
  • Public Opinion

• Further work continues to be necessary in order to make this possible, including explaining what we plan to do to European public opinion, as well as to our international partners, including the US but also China too.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Order
  • Continues
  • International Partners

• I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • President

• All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Species
  • Satyagraha
  • Tyaga

• The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Consequences
  • Socialism
  • Workers

• In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Progress

• I believe that the position of the friends of peace is strengthening. The friends of peace are able to work in the open. They base themselves upon the force of public opinion. They have at their disposal such instruments as, for instance, the League of Nations. This is to the advantage of the friends of peace.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • I Believe
  • League Of Nations
  • Friends Of Peace

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Power
  • Mysterious
  • Public Opinion

• . . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Research
  • Public Opinion
  • Self-respect

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

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Importance
  • Public Opinion
  • Suffrage

• For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Emotion
  • Laughter
  • Fair

• In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped to create a public discourse in which men like Lincoln become possible. That doesn't mean Lincoln is an abolitionist. It means there is a public opinion out there which is being influenced by antislavery sentiment.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Lincoln
  • Demanded
  • Democratic society

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