“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.”
Walter Bagehot
“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice”
Abraham Lincoln
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
Winston Churchill
“Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”
Oscar Wilde
“Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.”
Mark Twain
“Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained”
