#public opinion

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#all-powerful #character #forming #giving #hardly

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people. ↗

— Peter King

#anguish #causing #construct #deep #else

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#consequences #leaders #opinion #opinion polls #polls

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

#broke #consideration #elemental #leading #means

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

#coalition #exactly #fact #free #freed

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public. ↗

— B. Carroll Reece

#filter #general #general public #generated #ideas

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#follows #his #ignorant #makes #man

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

#commitment #due #experienced #expressed #fact

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. ↗

— Mackenzie King

#bad #bad government #government #last #likely