Opinion Quotes - Page 17

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.

I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Everybody's got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader.

It is not advisable to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

I'm my own person. I'm not a yes person. So I tell it as it is. I tell my opinions and I was always like that. So I think he likes that.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.

I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing