Public Opinion Quotes - Page 14

• I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Ministers, Found, Knows

  Sain in the Chamber of Peers in 1821. "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 570, 1922.

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• I think you can not be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Opinion Polls, Fluctuation

  "Dick Cheney's Last Word" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2011.

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• What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

  Georg Brandes

  Opinion, Indolence

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.5, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Israel, Doe, Care

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• I think the people will - who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Country, Thinking, People

  Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hate, Tyrants, People

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• Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Perseverance, Giving, Pay

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• That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

  Thomas Huxley

  Independent, Political, Independence

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.194, Cambridge University Press

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• Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Mean, Class

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.731, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had everything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

  W. H. Auden

  Teacher, Children, War

  "The Unknown Citizen" l. 22 (1939)

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• No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

  Euripides

  Men, Earth, Conformity

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

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• One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Hands, Two, Might

  Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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• They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Knowledge, Israel, Battle

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• The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

  James Russell Lowell

  Squares, Atmosphere, Sixteen

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• I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.

  Al Gore

  Running, White, People

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• If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Practice, Freedom Of Religion

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• Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

  Dick Morris

  Gay, Unions, Splits

  "Bush's Weapon Against Dean" by Dick Morris, www.foxnews.com. November 5, 2003.

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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

  Believe, Artist, Issues

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• But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.

  Bob Kerrey

  Thinking, Winning, Order

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• Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Culture, Substance, Aim

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.732, Modern Library

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• Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

  Ray Comfort

  Important, Use, Language

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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, in all of 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

  Matter, Facts, Majority

  "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. July 21, 2003.

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• I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

  Rachel Field

  Fire, Wind, Opinion

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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

  Real, Civilization, Progress

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Intelligent, Support, Liberty

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