Quotes about Public opinion

Still, Sean Hannity had 5.8 million viewers on the night of the Blasey Ford—Kavanaugh hearing. "That's a lot of fucking hobbits," said Bannon.

A person who has no standard to live by other than the culture of the moment is a person whose principles might as well come from the latest public opinion polls.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he was afraid of the people, because they regarded John as a prophet.

So when the crowd had assembled, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”

Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers treated the false prophets in the same way.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people. The Father of his Country, in his Farewell Address, uses this language: Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.