It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.
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.
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities. . .
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
In my life right now, in my music, and just overall I feel like I'm winning. It doesn't matter what this person is saying or what the charts are saying or what award shows are saying, the public opinion doesn't matter. I feel like I'm winning in my spirit.
No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.
The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.
Muslim traders and philanthropists should make it a point that if the weapon of public opinion is to be used, it is to be kept in the hand.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
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.
Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.
All Governments rest mainly on public opinion, and to that of his own subjects every wise Sovereign will look. The opinion of his subjects will force a Sovereign to do his duty, and by that opinion will he be exalted or depressed in the politics of the world.
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.
Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.