Public Opinion Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• 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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• All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Fasting, Bitterness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Egypt, Way

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opinion, Journalism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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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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• 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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• 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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• As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.

  John Dewey

  Government, Organization, Democracy

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.175, SIU Press

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• By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

  Dan Rather

  Law, Two, Drug

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• Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the late pope's followers believe he is already there.

  Chris Matthews

  Believe, Journey, Followers

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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• I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.

  Raymond Barre

  Taken, Ideas, Should

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• If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Independent, Opportunity, Shining

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• In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Two, Voters

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.581, Routledge

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• To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Merit, Proof, Importance

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