#popular opinion

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#contrary #dance #hustle #new #old

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#actually #america #educators #only #opinion

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#common sense #itself #left #lost #making

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#confused #darwinian #darwinian theory #distinction #evolution

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

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That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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