Desinteressiert / Disinterested Direkt / Directly Gemacht / Made Klingen / Sound Macht / Force Meinung / Opinion Nutzlos / Useless Nutzloses Wissen / Useless Knowledge Öffentliche Meinung / Public Opinion Öffentlichkeit / Public Wissen / Knowledge
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
