Opinion Quotes - page 4

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion. (William Hazlitt)

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Burke

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Edmund Burke

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

Gore Vidal

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

H. P. Lovecraft

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

Albert Jay Nock

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Simon Conway Morris

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Harlan Ellison

I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital. (William Stanley Jevons)

Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.

William Stanley Jevons

I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or he angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent my self.

Thomas Browne

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

Georg Brandes

Never get worried over what people say/think about you. Fuck ‘em, at the end of the day the only opinion that matters is yours.

Shannon Leto

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Nicolas Chamfort

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.

Václav Havel

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Jane Austen

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

William Butler Yeats

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. (Jonathan Swift)

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Michel de Montaigne

I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto-Marxist, an irrationalist, a nihilist.

Michel Foucault

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion. But thank God it's a lot safer now.

Murray Walker

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Robert H. Jackson

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