#public opinion

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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

— James F. Cooper

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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

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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

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

— Wendell Phillips

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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. ↗

— Dan Rather

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

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I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

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Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

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