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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.
Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
In America, public opinion is the leader.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.