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  • With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.

  • Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.8, Xist Publishing
  • 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.

    George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.331
  • That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

    Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.194, Cambridge University Press
  • There is no group in America that can withstand the force of an aroused public opinion.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.254, Best Books on
  • Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

    Art   Government   Today  
  • The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

    Art   Men   Thinking  
    New Musical Express Magazine, May 1957.
  • Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

  • Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

    "Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society: Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues".
  • 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.

  • Public opinion is a second conscience.

  • Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.

    Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

    Sain in the Chamber of Peers in 1821. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 570, 1922.
  • The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is that people do not want to pay them. If they wanted to pay them, there would be no need for taxes. People would gladly figure out how much of their money that the government deserves and send it in. And yet we routinely hear about opinion polls that reveal that the public likes the tax level as it is and might even like it higher. Next they will tell us that the public thinks the crime rate is too low, or that the American people would really like to be in more auto accidents.

    "Speaking of Liberty". Book by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, 2003.
  • All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.

    James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”
  • Public opinion in this country is everything.

    Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.57, Library of America
  • Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had everything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

    Teacher   Children   War  
    "The Unknown Citizen" l. 22 (1939)
  • Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

    "A Critique of Interventionism". Book by Ludwig von Mises, p. 163, 1929.
  • In America, public opinion is the leader

    Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”
  • A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.

    Lying   Exercise   Rights  
    "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.
  • Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

    Taken   Mean   Class  
    Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.731, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Unless you can point to something that I have done or said that has changed the course of the public opinion in a negative way, you've got to check yourself sometimes and say, "Maybe I don't like the way that this thing is said, but it's expanding tolerance." If I said something that was shutting down something that was positive, call me out, but I don't really see me doing that.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

    Country   Freedom   Law  
    George Orwell (2016). “Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.501, epubli
  • Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.

    Sacrifice   Long   Wish  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”
  • To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”
  • Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

    "Dilma Rousseff: can Brazil's fighter survive the turmoil?" by Jonathan Watts and Bruce Douglas, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2015.
  • The only remaining superpower is international public opinion.

  • This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

    Party   Phones   Focus  
    Hansard (parlamentary debates transcript), January 29, 2003.
  • What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

    Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.5, WILLIAM HEINEMANN
  • I think support of the straight community is very important and I think there has been a profound shift in public opinion seen reflected in many ways. We do not need straight people to speak for us but we do want straight people to stand with us.

    Source: www.bilerico.com
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