#public opinion

Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ↗

— Robert Peel

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In America, public opinion is the leader. ↗

— Frances Perkins

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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. ↗

— Dan Rather

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The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

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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

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Public opinion is a second conscience. ↗

— William R. Alger

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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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