Public Opinion Polls

Famous quotes containing the words public opinion, public, opinion and/or polls:

    “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.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I do not like to “interest” the public with myself.”
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    “The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the “Monied Interest;” I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself “the friend of government.””
    —William, Earl Of Pitt (1708–1778)

    “The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman’s soul.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)