We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
I ask everyone's opinion when they don't speak up. And then when they have an opinion, I'll ask others to talk about it.
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Minister: Public opinion has a way of changing.
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Be sure to have a controversial opinion, and men will talk about you.
Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.
She was a woman who lived however she wished without care for another, without putting the needs of those around her before her own selfish opinions. We are breeding a nation of such thinkers and individuals--intent on personal expression at all cost...
Life is too minuscule to waste any proportion of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the introductory place, if they had desirable things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What'...
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
I am a citizen of the world.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
