“I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them”
Herbert Henry Lehman
“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
Bertrand Russell
“One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny”
“. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.”
Beatrice Potter Webb
“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice”
Abraham Lincoln
“Public opinion in this country is everything.”
“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
Mark Twain