Public Opinion Quotes

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Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAn

Rumour is a pipeBlown by surmises, jealousies, conjecturesAnd of so easy and so plain a stopThat the blunt monster with uncounted heads,The still-discordant wavering multitude,Can play upon it.

William Shakespeare

Reputation Gossip Public Opinion Falsehood Libel Rumor Slander Wagging Tongues

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear wh

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Wisdom Life Time Attitude People Gossip Public Opinion Explain

His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy.

His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.

Sleep

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln

Religion Inspirational Dissent Moral Courage Public Opinion