169 Quotes About Public-opinion

I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken favorably.

The proliferation of material means that people might start to become selective about what they consume and, if my instincts are correct, they are likely to read only that which confirms what they already know. This means they will never have their ideas tested. I worry that as a result, people will form tight groups around those who confirm their biases, mistrusting those whom they encounter who think differently.

Vox populi, vox Humbug.

The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits.

As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard.

Public opinion! I don't know how sociologists define it, but it seems obvious to me that it can only consist of interacting individual opinions, freely expressed and independent of government or party opinion.So long as there is no independent public opinion in our country, there is no guarantee that the extermination of millions and millions for no good reason will not happen again, that it will not begin any night—perhaps this very night.

Kto się poświęcił dla dobra ludzi, powinien o ich sądzie zapomnieć. — Czy wiesz, kto jest bogiem nazarenów? Ten co dla zbawienia braci sam przystał na hańbę krzyża!

The public must be put in its place [...] so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they have the know-how.