"Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree."
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"This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. It is also the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man and improving him as a rational, moral, and social being."
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"I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas."
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"Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy."
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"Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion."
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"The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion."
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"Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion."
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"The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion."
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"When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do."
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"All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness."
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"Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible."
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"Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas."
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"Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."
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"When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said."
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"Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic."
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"In fact, it's pretty dramatic when you get to 1975, very revealing, the [Vietnam] war ends. Everybody had to write something about the war, what it meant. You also had polls of public opinion, and they're dramatically different."
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