#public opinion

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

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Public opinion in this country is everything. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ↗

— Robert Peel

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In America, public opinion is the leader. ↗

— Frances Perkins

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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