Quotes 281 till 300 of 484.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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Public sharing is an important part of science.
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Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
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Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales
Member of the British royal family, first wife of Prince Charles (1961 - 1997)
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