Opinion Quotes - Page 25

If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

Listen, be respectful of others' opinions, be willing to change your mind - and then ultimately you have to make the decision. Decisiveness is very important.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.