If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
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.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
What is public opinion? It is private indolence.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.
Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.