Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS A number means nothing until something stands behind it
FERNANDO DEL MORAL Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Any case should be tried in a court of law and not a court of public opinion.
FREDA BLACK The thought was to have people who have made an extraordinary contribution in scholarship, public se...
HAROLD KOH Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.
WILL ROGERS There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
ELISABETH ELLIOT Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus...
AMBROSE BIERCE Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rott...
TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind ...
ARTHUR COHN Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity...
LYUDMILA ALEXEYEVA It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form i...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion
HENRY WARD BEECHER A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced
ELBERT HUBBARD It doesn't mean something can't be orchestrated behind the scenes. This will be decided in the court...
GEORGE BICHER Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual for...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form...
JAMES F. COOPER Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permit...
EMILE CAPOUYA It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion infl...
BRUCE JACKSON Public opinion is a second conscience.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Public opinion is a second conscience.
WILLIAM ALGER We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her sta...
GROUCHO MARX We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her sta...
NICK MIROV The law is an opinion with a gun.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The bombings in London very much shocked public opinion in Europe. It's completely normal for a gove...
DALIL BOUBAKEUR Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this co...
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
FRANCINE RIVERS We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone an...
ERNESTINE ROSE Basically, the opponents of this project have lost in the court of public opinion. So they've gone b...
ANNA AURILIO Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to press...
WARREN E. BURGER If you're asking all this because of Wendell, forget it. Wendell has a few marbles missing when it c...
FRANCISCO X. STORK What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
VINCENT VAN GOGH A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the t...
ALICE OSWALD Nothing is a problem, unless you think it is.
JIM GENOVESE Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
MAHATMA GANDHI There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what e...
SOURCE UNKNOWN American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
HUBERT HUMPHREY American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY that California law still stands.
BILL LOCKYER A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
WARREN BUFFETT A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
WARREN BUFFETT Nothing is as it seems, unless it is.
ARIC ROSS Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
JUSTIN CRONIN Wal-Mart has already lost the battle in the court of public opinion; now Wal-Mart has lost the battl...
PAUL BLANK In America, public opinion is the leader.
FRANCES PERKINS Public opinion in this country is everything.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If a woman stands behind you, respect her; if she stands beside you, cherish her; if she stands with...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
HENRIK IBSEN Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?
JAMIE ZAWINSKI I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
PLATO Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless ...
JONATHAN HAIDT Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless ...
BOETHIUS Public opinion has shifted. You can feel it.
CELESTE ZAPPALA It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
SUZANNE COLLINS When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it...
DENNIS PRAGER When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you...
DENNIS PRAGER Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich a...
DENNIS PRAGER For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
MOHANDAS GANDHI As if there wasn't a thousand things that were never heard.
H.G. WELLS I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken favorab...
SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The probl...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT I'm going to introduce a bill which leaves the cap at 10 percent unless the district fails to meet t...
BRETT DAVIS It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
WALLY AMOS Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so
BOETHIUS Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can suc...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Inspiration is a spark. It is nothing unless we use it to build a fire.
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of...
MAHATMA GANDHI Unless a legislature passes a bill testing the opinion, there is no way to know if the court's opini...
VIKRAM AMAR There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKY Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
MARK TWAIN I just received a phone call regarding a "public opinion survey." I told them I had a poor opinion o...
E.R. ROCK At their most influential, debates probably move public opinion only a few percentage points. But th...
DAVID LANOUE Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowled...
GEORGE WASHINGTON There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
LINDA GRAYSON There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
CHARLES DICKENS Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
CICERO Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.
PERIANDER OF CORINTH Believe me nothing remains the same. Change is inevitable and is the law of nature. People grow toge...
LATIKA TEOTIA The first weekend in September stands for the pure zest for life. A warm welcome to Berlin!
KLAUS WOWEREIT No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE Until this open wound is cauterized and healed, European public opinion will stay where it is.
RON ASMUS And sometimes there is relief, sometimes there is new inner energy, and one stands up after it; till...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing...
NATASHA LYONNE Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, n...
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WENDELL BERRY Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY Sabbaths, 1982—IV
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)
Thrush song,...
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