Popular Opinion Quotes

• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

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• Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, World, Recognition

  "Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1727.

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• Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Truth, Integrity, Character

  William Lloyd Garrison (1832). “Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color”, p.6

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• Public opinion in this country is everything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Government, Political

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.57, Library of America

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• In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Age, Popular Song

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.29, Booklassic

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• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Public Opinion, Politics

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dance, Hustle, Literature

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• No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Women, Law, Political

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• And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Long, Opinion, I Have Learned

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Cabinet papers [contin.] 1794-1795. [Miscellanies, 1794-1795] Military papers. 1798-1800. Correspondence [contin.] 1789-1795”, p.52

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• It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Roots, Shifting, Approval

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2014

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• The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

  Christopher Lasch

  Party, Common Sense, Lost Friendship

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• There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Motivational, Public Opinion

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• Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

  John Stuart Mill

  Truth, Halloween, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.45, OUP Oxford

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• There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

  Brad Pitt

  Wisdom, Monkeys, Opinion

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• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Success, Wisdom

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.143, Penguin

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• I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

  James Salter

  Way To Live, Tabloids, Opinion

  "James Salter: The Greatest Writer You've Never Read" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2015.

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• It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Dog, Opinion, Painful

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Confused, Organization, People

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• It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

  Voltaire

  Age, Opinion

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.135

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• Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Idol Worship, Opinion, Idolatry

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a "barbed-wire entanglement" designed to interfere with, restrict, and impede government officials in the exercise of political power.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Exercise, Rights, Government

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• Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Doe, Originality, Opinion

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• Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

  Gene Sharp

  Population, Opinion, Dictatorship

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.18, Albert Einstein Institution

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• The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Confused, Stressed, Atheism

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