“And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.” ThinkingAttitudeOpinionInformationMajorsPopulationAdministrationPostsWheelsMentalityRepresentativesAccustomedPublic OpinionSecrecyAccommodateSqueaky Wheel Author:Ted Gup
“People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.” PeopleHumansDifficultAttitudeRightsHuman RightsSizePopulationChineseAnnoyed Author:Peter Ustinov
“Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.” StatesTodayUnderstandingUnitedAttitudeMoralUnited StatesVirtueEffectsYouthBehaviorPopulationEducationalPrioritiesPortionsTangibleCivicsDisregardMoral Virtues Book:Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society Source: Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society
“In some parts of the world, that sex selection for boys - and it's usually for boys - reflects sex discrimination against girls, and it leads to very large imbalances - in China, in Korea, in India - in the population between boys and girls, a vast disproportion of boys to girls, and it reflects really this discriminatory attitude toward girls.” WorldGirlSexAttitudeBoysIndiaPopulationChinaDiscriminationSelectionKoreaBoy And GirlImbalanceBoy GirlSex Discrimination Author:Michael Sandel
“The UK had plenty of people in their country just like we have here who had the same attitudes about immigration that you find on the American left and the Democrat Party here. That the Brits, because of colonialism and because the British Empire had been so unfair to people all over the world it was time to pay the price. And you had liberals who thought that all of this was making a grand diverse society and population which would improve things in the UK.” PeopleWorldCountryLeftPartyPayAttitudeDemocratPopulationBritishImmigrationPlentyEmpiresDiverseColonialismUnfairPay The PriceBritish EmpireBritsDiverse Society Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.” IfsKidsAttitudeWatchesFivePolicyAdultsResourcesVotePopulationAgencyTarget Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.” IfsAttitudePolicyAdultsPopulationTarget Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.” IfsKidsCertainBlackWhiteAttitudeClassMiddleEatingPopulationKitchenMiddle ClassPercentages Author:Barack Obama
“Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally wrong and immoral, not a mistake. And that attitude lasted as long as polls were taken in the early '80s.” LooksLongSaidWarMistakeAttitudeOpinionTakenPercentPopulationVietnam80sImmoralPublic OpinionPollsVietnam War Author:Noam Chomsky