Public Opinion Quotes - Page 9

• Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

  Jacques Necker

  Fool, Failing, Accounts

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• Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

  Michael Anti

  Government, Political, Chinese

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• Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Secret, Pseudonyms

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• Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

  Albert J. Nock

  Useless, Sound, Force

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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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• 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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• 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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• Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Christ, Truth Is

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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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• American public opinion, as you can see in the polls, radically changed from being against airstrikes to being heavily in favor that [President Obama] decided to do airstrikes. This is a classic example of leading from behind where he waits for public opinion. And now it's the public who's demanding he do something.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Waiting, President, Example

  "Obama takes a mulligan on response to beheadings" By Chris Stirewalt, www.foxnews.com. September 10, 2014.

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• Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Light, Physicians, Essentials

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• In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Eye, Cities, Intellectual

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2404, Manonmani Publishers

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• The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.

  David A. Bednar

  Trends, Fads, Truth Is

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Israel, Doe, Care

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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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• I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.

  Barbara Dana

  Oil, Important, Burning

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• According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Air, Balls, Easier

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.493, Princeton University Press

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• The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

  Anatole France

  Military, Heaven, Kingdoms

  Anatole France (2016). “The Revolt of the Angels”, p.36, Xist Publishing

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