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Letter "P" » public opinion
«Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.»
Author: George H. Gallup
| Keywords:
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«Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
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Judgement
| Keywords:
basis, indifferent, Judges, pressures, public opinion, rule of law, The Rule of Law, The Times, Too Much Pressure, totally
«Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.»
Author: Dan Rather
| Keywords:
denounce, denounced, denounces, Journalists, opinion poll, Opinion polls, polls, public opinion, public opinion poll, Public opinion polls
«One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.»
Author: Douglas MacArthur
(General)
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molded, propaganda, public opinion, public press, the press, tremendously, wage
«Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, duty, imposes, opinion, painting, public, public opinion
«One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
in so far, keep out, prison, public opinion, so far, starvation, submission, submissions, tyranny, unnecessary, voluntary
«One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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insofar, keep out, opinion, prison, public, public opinion, respect, starvation, submission, submissions, tyrannies, tyranny, unnecessary, voluntary
«Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
embodies, embody, embodying, enforced, enforcing, public opinion
«Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
attempt, community, dignity, elevate, organize, organizes, physical, physical force, public opinion
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurdity, gross, public opinion, scarcely
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