Quotes about Public opinion

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.

What other people think is more important than what we feel.

Those who based decisions on principle, not some snapshot of public opinion, were often vindicated over time.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish.

So many people, you know, they're just worried about, you can't say something bad about Obama, not because you actually have a strong stance against his platform, but because that makes you a racist.

While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.