Public Opinion Polls

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

    “It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “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)