Public Opinion Quotes - Page 9

• Don't talk to me about appealing to the public. I am done with the public, for the present anyway. The public reads the headlines and that is all. The story itself is fair and shows the facts. That would be all right if the public read the facts. But it does not. It reads the headlines and listens to the demagogues and that's the stuff public opinion is made of.

  J. P. Morgan

  Done, Stuff, Facts

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• We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Struggle, Tyrants, Age

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• Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Crush, Mother, Baby

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• That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Tyrants, Opinion

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• But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mistake, Believe, Political

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• If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

  Farrah Gray

  Live Your Life, Ends, Court

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• Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opinion, Journalism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Long, Feelings

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• The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Views, Age

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• Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

  James A. Garfield

  Real, Party, Issues

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.586, Best Books on

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• The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, Elude, Common

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

  Moses Finley

  Ignorance, Discovery, Democracy

  Moses I. Finley (1973). “Democracy ancient and modern”

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• I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Heart, Humble

  Address to the Nation Pardoning Richard M. Nixon, delivered on September 8, 1974, Washington D.C.

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• Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

  Emile Capouya

  Government, Law, Misuse

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• I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.

  Shimon Peres

  Stronger, Weakness, Use

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, College, Ideas

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Creating, Operations, Method

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.354, Rajpal & Sons

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• Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Atmosphere, Atoms, Individual

  William Rounseville Alger (1867). “The Solitudes of Nature and of Man, Or, The Loneliness of Human Life”, p.99

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• Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Elements, Ends, Process

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.142, Hackett Publishing

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• When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Opinion, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.353, Rajpal & Sons

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• If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

  George Orwell

  Country, Worst Enemy, Editors

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Tyrants, Mediocrity, Hydra

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• The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Favors, Socialism, Propaganda

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• ...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Men, Joy

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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