Public Opinion Quotes

**Public opinion**, a complex sociological phenomenon. It's not merely the sum of individual opinions, but a collective force shaped by social interactions, media, and major events. It is fluid, changing and evolving, and sometimes surprisingly misleading or rational.

Understanding how it forms and its impact is crucial for anyone seeking to understand or influence society. It is the voice of the people, even if that voice shouts in contradictory directions.

Explore these quotes that shed light on the nature of public opinion, its power, and how it is both influenced and influences.

Quote by Thomas Sowell: People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear ...
Quote by Barack Obama: My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying h...
Quote by Winston Churchill: Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, ...
Quote by Taylor Swift: It's not our job to make people like us if they don't....
Quote by Taylor Swift: The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and ...
Quote by Marilyn Monroe: The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it...
Quote by Margaret Thatcher: If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim....
Quote by Abraham Lincoln: Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can suc...
Quote by John F. Kennedy: Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked u...
Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte: In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle....
Quote by Lou Holtz: You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when yo...
Quote by Albert Einstein: At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is corr...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agen...
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli: Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands....
Quote by Taylor Swift: I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the...
Quote by Margaret Thatcher: If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing follower...
Quote by Muhammad Ali: I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe...
Quote by Mike Tyson: It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a tot...
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli: Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits...
Quote by Confucius: By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost....
Quote by Mike Tyson: I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me....
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to kee...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion....
Quote by Barack Obama: In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me....
Quote by Ingrid Bergman: I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what pe...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will...
Quote by Ronald Reagan: People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the...
Quote by Barack Obama: One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the ol...
Quote by George Washington: It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, tha...
Quote by Barack Obama: I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been...
Quote by Barack Obama: I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist h...
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, ...
Quote by Taylor Swift: Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's wa...
Quote by Kanye West: Everybody gon' say something. I'd be worried if they said nothing....
Quote by William Shakespeare: After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live....
Quote by Malcolm X: The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the vic...
Quote by George Orwell: In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is...
Quote by William Butler Yeats: All think what other people think;All know the man their neighbor knows.Lord, what would they sayDid...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion....
Quote by Malcolm X: One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't...
Quote by George Orwell: If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because th...
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead...
Quote by Thomas Sowell: As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for al...
Quote by Winston Churchill: The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes....
Quote by Dave Barry: If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all...
Quote by Bill Gates: One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, ...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when per...
Quote by H. L. Mencken: The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and u...
Quote by Mike Tyson: People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people....
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli: Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose th...
Quote by Clint Eastwood: A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama....
Quote by Voltaire: He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and whole...
Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte: Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult....
Quote by Mark Twain: The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all....
Quote by Abraham Lincoln: Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense ...
Quote by Elbert Hubbard: Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few....
Quote by George Washington: In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will ...
Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte: To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage....
Quote by Vince Lombardi: Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you....