Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Bono

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Albert Einstein

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Albert J. Nock

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

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

H. L. Mencken

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans.

George F. Kennan

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

Nicolas Chamfort

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Bertrand Russell

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Blair Jones

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americans.

Rick Gibson

That was the game, those two (baskets) in my opinion were the game.

Maj. Pettai

We have very positive opinions from the Iraqis.

Melissa Merz

We have thousands of requests for opinions. We get through the opinions as quickly as we can.

Vint Cerf

Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this?

Barbara Thompson

We are disappointed in the result and are studying the opinion carefully.

John Roberts

I don't think you can read those opinions and say that these are the opinions of an ideologue,

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Swami Vivekananda

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

Leslie Jamison

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

Victor Pinchuk

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

Winston Churchill

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.