Public Opinion Polls

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

    “Public Opinion ... an attempt to organise the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “He is superstitious grown of late,
    Quite from the main opinion he held once
    Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people’s minds would be uninhabitable.”
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)