Quotes:
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
View quotes by Warren Buffett
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
View quotes by Joseph Goebbels
This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere. [on record companies manipulating public opinion]
View quotes by Emma Anderson
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.
View quotes by Douglas Macarthur
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man
View quotes by William Ralph Inge
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
View quotes by George Gallup
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
View quotes by Andre Breton
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
View quotes by Francis Bacon
I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the Republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all. [Possibly expressing an opinion that it shouldn't go anywhere at all there, Guy Green?]
View quotes by Guy Green
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
View quotes by Blaise Pascal
There was never really a case for an election. There was no great demand from the public. There was no need for it. [what political system is he commenting on? Not the one the public are clearly!]
View quotes by Anthony Howard
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
View quotes by Quintus Cicero
The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918)
View quotes by William Henry Vanderbilt
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
View quotes by Errol Flynn
Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.
View quotes by Curtis Carlson
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
View quotes by Tom Wolfe
We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionist. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.
View quotes by Michael Crichton
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
View quotes by Bertrand Russell
If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.
View quotes by Kin Hubbard
I believe it is wrong to undermine public safety, and indeed public confidence in the concept of human rights, by allowing highly dangerous criminals and terrorists to trump the rights of the people of Britain to live in security and peace
View quotes by David Cameron
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