Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Public opinion

Don’t be swayed just because they say it’s public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.
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Not what you say about yourself, but what others say.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

American public opinion is like an ocean — it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
Hubert Humphrey (1911–78) American Head of State, Politician

Public Opinion… an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) American Statesman, Lawyer

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.
Walter Bagehot (1826–77) English Economist, Journalist

He who fears the opinion of the world more than his own conscience has but little self-respect.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright

Whosoever is loved by mankind is also loved by the Supreme, but whosoever is not loved by mankind is not loved by the Supreme.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

With us, law is nothing unless close, behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Let that die or grow indifferent, and statutes was waste paper, lacking all executive force.
Wendell Phillips (1811–84) American Abolitionist, Lawyer, Orator

Power is founded upon opinion.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) Dutch Painter

Jesus Christ was crucified by public opinion.
Russian Proverb

If one person tell thee that thou hast asses’ ears, do not mind it; but if two persons make this assertion, at once place a pack-saddle upon thy back.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

Wonderful “Force of Public Opinion!” We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of “influence” it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

Three Spaniards, four opinions.
Spanish Proverb

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German Literary and Marxist Critic

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766–1817) French Woman of Letters

Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German Philosopher

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) American Novelist

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion – what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

The voice of the people is as the voice of God.
The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
Samuel Butler

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) American Journalist, Political Commentator

Ah! Sir, a boy’s being flogged is not so severe as a man’s having the hiss of the world against him.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English Novelist

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