Public-opinion Quotes

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inev...

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if th...

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents...

It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through t...

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes hav...

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were sw...

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deservi...

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is ...

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the ...

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the des...

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poet...

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square....

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a...

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it,...

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle w...

The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,Are what ten thousand envy and adore:All, all look up, wit...

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—a...

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard every...

When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners to...