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Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.


Robert Peel

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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
GORE VIDAL The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
SAMUEL BUTLER Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middl...
KATE SMITH A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling th...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL It doesn’t always feel right when we do what is right.
TERENCE T. GORSKI Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defin...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
VOLTAIRE A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
AMBROSE BIERCE Difference of opinion is a clash, and to clash is a ‘weakness’.
DADA BHAGWAN Prejudice is an opinion without judgment
VOLTAIRE The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, ...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
SUZANNE CURCHOD NECKER What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
JOSEPH PAUL GOEBBELS The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS Remember there is no one to sympathize for your emotion & feeling. Therefore never lament for your p...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Justin is feeling really good right now.
BOB LOY Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS There is no such thing as right and wrong, there's just popular opinion.
JEFFREY GOINES I am feeling a little better. This (sickness) just comes and goes at this point, but it is much bett...
MIKE DAVIS The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.
JILL ABRAMSON More a person could actually feel and think, less s/he would be seen getting attracted towards the m...
ANUJ SOMANY Feeling and thinking are directly proportional to each other and inseparable.
ANUJ SOMANY PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
AMBROSE BIERCE Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If get a jump right, there's a feeling of flying.
JONATHAN EDWARDS It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
JOSEPH GOEBBELS Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON I'm feeling more comfortable, more confident, ... I'm just feeling real good on the ice right now an...
ERIC STAAL There's an increasing feeling among the public that it's not the right course to take and it's going...
JO SWINSON Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of...
MARQUIS DE SADE There is a real sense of cynicism about the level of corruption in Washington. The feeling among pub...
CARROLL DOHERTY You must always do what you feel is right
As you will have to live with your decisions for the ...
MIMI NOVIC When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
MAHALIA JACKSON All of the public defenders statewide are feeling the pressure of increased workload and lack of res...
ELLIOTT METCALF One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; ano...
MAHATMA GANDHI I've been steadily feeling better and better at the plate and feeling more comfortable to hit. I fee...
JEFF CONINE We have been assured by (referee's boss) Robert Finch there is no ill feeling between the referee an...
ROBERT FINCH Love is a beautiful feeling.
KABIR BEDI There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.
ROBERT CARO It's an unbelievable feeling. There's no words to describe how good this feeling feels right now.
CHELSEA MCTIGUE Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
NORA ROBERTS The things we read in scary stories are just using our imaginations to evoke a feeling. And sometime...
STEPHEN SISSON We're feeling pretty good right now.
JACK KOKINDA I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.'
'Simon. My name is Simon.
CASSANDRA CLARE Feeling right is a strong drug. Some people sacrifice a lot to be right. Ever hear the expression "d...
PETER MCWILLIAMS Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
THOMAS CARLYLE We're not in the business of censorship. It is not up to a government official to determine whose op...
LINTON JOHNSON My feeling is if we do it right, they will come.
PATRICIA ADAMS It felt a little awkward, but it's not feeling too bad right now. It's feeling pretty good, so hopef...
CHRIS HUNTER What is good is what feels good, and what is bad is what feels bad.
MARTY RUBIN The shock and the disappointment that the parents were feeling, we were feeling right along with the...
HEIDI EWING Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize w...
TOMORROW Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize w...
REX HARRISON Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
JACK CANFIELD It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It r...
CHARLES GLOVER BARKLA It's a great feeling knowing we can come out and win on this court. We proved ourselves wrong.
LAURA BARANEK Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this co...
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES My feeling is that right now everyone needs to proceed with caution.
PHIL MCCABE Music is a gift from the heavens, I am feeling heaven on earth right now.
KēVENS In my opinion, in the absence of studies, in the absence of data, there is no right or wrong answer,
LEON SPEROFF While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplis...
ALEXANDER LOWEN Feeling bad is not the problem.
The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.

O...
ERIC MICHA'EL LEVENTHAL There was a feeling ... if we give this information to the FBI and something goes wrong, we're going...
ANTHONY SHAFFER There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus...
MILDRED D. TAYLOR Guilt is feeling of some offence, some wrong doing, to hurt someone, to deceive someone but ultimate...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's a great feeling right now. I can't even explain it.
MANDY CLOSE The Christian right is very powerful in Ohio, powerful in its hypocrisy and its rhetoric and, sadly,...
CHRIS REDFERN Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD BARUCH Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.
FRANçOIS LELORD I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.
BARBARA ELSE I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.
JIMMIE JOHNSON Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all, and others to persecute those who...
VOLTAIRE You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special...
STEVE BARRY Right now Craig is feeling quite down, as you'd expect he would be.
JOHN LANG It was a great night. I'm feeling good. Everything is coming easily for me right now.
FILIPPO INZAGHI They're shorting the yen and that's the right attitude. There's a feeling we're reaching some kind o...
RUSSELL JONES This is one of those days where you get the feeling things aren't going to go right, and they contin...
CHRIS SHAW Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize w...
REX HARRISON This is the natural process for healing hurt. Hurt is just a feeling. When you allow the feeling to ...
BILL FERGUSON Public opinion is a second conscience.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Public opinion is a second conscience.
WILLIAM ALGER I was grinning and laughing on 14 and my caddie asked me why, and I wouldn't tell him. I just felt I...
ANDERS HANSEN Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced
ELBERT HUBBARD Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts
BERNARD M. BARUCH He's feeling a little better. Right now, he's day to day. I don't think we can [look] any farther th...
EDDIE OLCZYK When you have the right, doesn't mean that you are right.
FARAH EZZATIE Before I knowed it, I was saying out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no ...
JOHN STEINBECK What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. A...
JEANNE DUPRAU Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
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ROBERT FROST What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST