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• The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

  Johan Huizinga

  Looks, Demand, Judgment

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• There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

  Gene Sharp

  Strong, Defense, Pressure

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• I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Sexy, Laughing, Cynical

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• 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 F. Cooper

  Break Up, Government, United States

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• Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Country, Believe, Leader

  "Transcript: Jose Maria Aznar on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2004.

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• The course of business shapes public opinion.

  Marvin Bower

  Shapes, Opinion, Courses

  "The development of executive leadership", by Marvin Bower, Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration. (p. v), 1949.

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• The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

  Robert Peel

  Government, Reform, Bills

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• No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

  Robert Peel

  Opinion, Ministers

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• A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

  Haile Selassie

  Errors, Political, Growth

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• We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Experts, Mastery, Tails

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• 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, Law, Needs

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• I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Real, Humility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.246, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Land, Numbers

  Agence France Presse, en.wikipedia.org. November 15, 1998.

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• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

  Dan Rather

  Funny, Government, Opinion Polls

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• The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

  Rush Limbaugh

  Depressing, Tools, Shapes

  "'Skewed' Polls, ACORN, And Right-Wing Delusion" by Eric Boehlert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

  Curtis LeMay

  Country, Thinking, Hands

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• The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Moving, World, Levers

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.167, Princeton University Press

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• I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Doe, Claims

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• This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Phones, Focus

  Hansard (parlamentary debates transcript), January 29, 2003.

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• A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

  Augustus Hare

  Horse, Holding On, Should

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• The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Love, Peace, Government

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• 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, Men, Bravery

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• The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

  Samuel Butler

  Records, World, Weakness

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• 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

  Country, Men, Hands

  "The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents". Book by William A. DeGregorio (p. 133), 1984.

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