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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Public Opinion

BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

3.6 · 40 votes

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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Public Opinion

AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

4.1 · 41 votes

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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

Public Opinion

Mark Zuckerberg

BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

4.3 · 23 votes

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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.

Public Opinion

PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

3.3 · 37 votes · 150 reads

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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

Public Opinion

WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Public Opinion

EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

4.7 · 41 votes · 196 reads

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Public Opinion

PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

3.5 · 50 votes

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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Public Opinion

Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

4.1 · 20 votes · 136 reads

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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

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John D. Rockefeller

BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

4.4 · 50 votes

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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Public Opinion

PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
3.0 · 41 votes · 89 reads
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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
PoetFrench1636 · 17th century
3.6 · 61 votes · 147 reads
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What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
Benjamin Disraeli
PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century
3.3 · 60 votes · 51 reads
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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 articu
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
3.9 · 52 votes · 23 reads
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