“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, 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.”
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
Winston Churchill
“The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?”
Albert Schweitzer
“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”
Bertrand Russell
“There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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