At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.