#public opinion

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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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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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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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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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service. ↗

— Warren Beatty

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It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. ↗

— Joseph Goebbels

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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

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