I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account.
Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.
Public opinion has been evolving nationwide when it comes to marijuana policy, and Californians have always been ahead of the curve.
If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [. . . ] All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.
Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.
I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
Absolute truth is not dependent upon public opinion or popularity. Now what is this truth? It is His gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.