Public Opinion Quotes - Page 15

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

  David A. Bednar

  Trends, Fads, Truth Is

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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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• We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

  Albert Einstein

  Depressing, Powerful, War

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

  B. Carroll Reece

  Running, Teaching, Ideas

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• We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

  Ernestine Rose

  Powerful, Character, Law

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Sex, Men

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• Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve.

  Rob Kampia

  Marijuana, Curves, Californians

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• The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Resistance, Despotism

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.66, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Echoes, Opinion, Contrary

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

  Jacques Necker

  Fool, Failing, Accounts

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• REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Popular Vote, Law

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.195, University of Georgia Press

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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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• Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

  Alan Blinder

  Democracy, Input, Politician

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• This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

  John Doolittle

  Country, War, Iraq

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• The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

  Hjalmar Branting

  War, Mean, Reflection

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• Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Conformity

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Men, Knowing

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• The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Reason, Strive

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Kings, Doors, Gathering

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• What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings? The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.

  Ben Okri

  Beautiful, Reality, Gun

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• See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fate, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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