“...it was just public opinion in an acute state of indigestion.”
“The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.”
“Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans.”
“Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.”
“But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.”
“The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid.”