Quotes on Popular Opinion

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.