#public opinion

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted. ↗

— Rachel Field

#i #lighted #like #opinion #out

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

#core #expression #forcible #law #mob

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#before #change #dramatic #dramatic change #enormously

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

#educated #individual #laws #marriage #matters

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

#been #country #efficient #fed #hands

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

#beset #citizen #compliment #evidence #good

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion. ↗

— James McGreevey

#being #best #closet #election #first

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #exhibit #form #law #masses

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

#ancient #bill #brings #destroyed #flood

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#follows #his #ignorant #makes #man