Opinion Quotes - Page 6

You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch and asks your opinion, you're sunk.

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

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

I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?

Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.

In every political community there are varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects. Ten degrees to the left of center in good times. Ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally. Here, then, is a lesson in safe logic.

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.