An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.
Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.
I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
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.
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.
I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.
I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.