#public opinion

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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The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Public opinion is a second conscience. ↗

— William R. Alger

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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them. ↗

— Paul Bremer

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