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Letter "P" » public opinion
«It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.»
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
(Novelist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
besets, besetting, democracies, exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, public opinion, usual
«It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.»
Author: Joseph Paul Goebbels
(Politician)
| Keywords:
absolute, formation, formations, public opinion, supervise, supervised, The Absolute, The State
«A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion»
«I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man-public opinion»
Author: Clarence Darrow
(Lawyer, Speaker, Writer)
| Keywords:
confronted, facing, front line, grown, lean, Public Enemy, public opinion, tired of
«A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, denies, hesitate, internal, in its own right, other states, public opinion, reflected, suppression, suppressions
«It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
generated, incapable, insinuate, insinuates, insinuating, irresponsible, judging, public opinion, public press, the press, uninformed
«A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.»
Author: Warren Buffett
| Keywords:
opinion poll, Opinion polls, poll, polled, Polling, public opinion, public opinion poll, Public opinion polls, substitute
«For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.»
«For the ''superior morality',' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality',' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
blindness, criminality, inferior, police, produced, properly, public morality, public opinion, subtler, thankful
«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»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Fanaticism,
Freedom,
Hell,
Law and lawyers,
Religion
| Keywords:
by law, fanaticism, freedom of religion, guaranteed, inquisition, inquisitions, in practice, in theory, overbear, overbearing, overborne, practice of law, prevail, public opinion, the Inquisition
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