Quotes about Public opinion

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.

Rahul Gandhi lacks the mass appeal and not a match to Modi... people will not not accept him as prime minister.

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.

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!

The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value.

In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a stand to protect his nation's children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda.