Public Opinion Polls

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

    “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    “We too had many pretty toys when young;
    A law indifferent to blame or praise,
    To bribe or threat; habits that made old wrong
    Melt down, as it were wax in the sun’s rays;
    Public opinion ripening for so long
    We thought it would outlive all future days.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)