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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill
Only
Opinion
Public
Public Opinion
Published
Thing
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
Gore Vidal
Chaos
Given
Superstition
Misinformation
Opinion
Any
Any Given Moment
Public
Prejudice
Public Opinion
Moment
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
Respect
Tyranny
Prison
Submission
Starvation
Unnecessary
Out
Insofar
Voluntary
Beyond
Opinion
Goes
Anything
Public
Should
Avoid
Public Opinion
Keep
Necessary
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Government
Later
Bad
Bad Government
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Likely
Opinion
Becomes
Autocratic
Where
Which
Public
Little
Public Opinion
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
Martin Van Buren
God
Best
Man
Thank God
Will
Power
Country
Wicked
Weak
Most
Powers
Opinion
Unworthy
His
Thank
Hands
Hold
Which
Public
Fortunes
Public Opinion
Tolerate
Lives
Incompetent
Honest
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
Joseph Goebbels
State
Absolute
Supervise
Opinion
Formation
Public
Public Opinion
Right
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Charles Dudley Warner
Strong
Stronger
Ten
Ten Commandments
Opinion
Commandments
Than
Legislature
Public
Public Opinion
Nearly
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur
War
Other
Tremendously
Press
Propaganda
Support
Without
Opinion
Wage
Conditions
Cannot
Which
Forms
Public
Molded
Public Opinion
Present
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel
Feeling
Weakness
Paragraphs
Compound
Folly
Wrong
Obstinacy
Opinion
Public
Newspaper
Prejudice
Public Opinion
Right
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Constantly
Consult
Opinion
Public
Should
Public Opinion
Thermometer
Monarch
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama
Success
Politics
You
Do The Right Thing
Pride
Remember
Think
Neglecting
Right Thing
I Think
Marketing
Administration
Unpopular
Determined
Policy
Occupied
Opinion
Were
Office
Going
Anybody
The Right Thing
Short-Term
Public
Success Is
Perverse
Public Opinion
Even
Right
Thing
Intersection
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry Kissinger
Consequences
Responsible
Running
Leaders
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Polls
Public
Public Opinion
Public Opinion Polls
Actions
There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
Noam Chomsky
Tremendous
Between
Policy
Opinion
Public
Public Opinion
Public Policy
Gap
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
Albrecht Durer
God
Must
Never
Opinion
His
Commands
Overwhelmed
Artist
Public
Fulfill
Public Opinion
Chosen
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Courage
World
Will
Men
Face
Miserable
Cowardice
Steel
Bottom
Powder
Because
Opinion
Bravery
Public
Little
Public Opinion
Appears
Lurks
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
James Fenimore Cooper
Government
Will
States
Direction
Given
Having
Shall
Opinion
Been
False
Up
Whenever
Break
Break Up
Public
Public Opinion
United
United States
Consequence
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.
Mark McKinnon
You
Opportunities
Election
Three
President
General
General Election
Selection
Opinion
Campaign
Move
Substantially
Where
Convention
Vice
Vice President
Public
Your
Public Opinion
Base
Two
Needle
Speech
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann
Good
Nature
Intelligence
Loan
Will
Citizen
Sense
Evidence
Good Nature
Compliment
See
Soon
Perhaps
Partisan
Insult
Opinion
Private
Private Citizen
His
Imposition
Public
Public Opinion
Appeals
Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes outside of New York until I was 11.
David Cassidy
Me
People
Minutes
Outside
Environment
New
Until
Opinion
Up
Very
Contrary
York
Blue-Collar
New York
Grew
Public
Public Opinion
Image
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mahatma Gandhi
Me
Alien
Every
Ruler
Opinion
Public
Public Opinion
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
Samuel Alito
Decision
Made
Perception
Think
Would
Would-Be
Case
Undermined
Court
Opinion
Any
Legitimacy
Public
Public Opinion
Based
Historically, mass demonstrations have worked best at shifting public opinion and pressuring the powers-that-be when organizers highlighted one concrete demand: 'Bring Our Boys Home from Vietnam'; 'End Segregation Now'; 'Support Women's Right to Choose.'
Stephanie Coontz
Best
Home
Women
Shifting
Our
Segregation
Support
Demand
Mass
Opinion
Boy
Concrete
Demonstrations
End
Historically
Public
Worked
Vietnam
Choose
Public Opinion
Now
Right
Bring
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
Law
Society
Abnormal
Most
Forcible
Opinion
Mob
Public
Public Opinion
Rotten
Shows
Expression
Core
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Government
Analysis
Bad
Bad Government
Likely
Opinion
Where
Public
Little
Organized
Public Opinion
Last
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
Albert J. Nock
Knowledge
Made
Directly
Force
Opinion
Sound
Public
Disinterested
Public Opinion
Useless
Useless Knowledge
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
Alfred Russel Wallace
Marriage
Will
Matters
Duty
Society
Laws
Individual
Opinion
Educated
Reformed
Which
Public
Teach
Public Opinion
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