Quotes with opinion

  • The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
  • The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
  • It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
  • As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
  • Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
  • The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
  • The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
  • A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
  • The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
  • Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • William Butler Yeats It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Katherine Mansfield Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Les Brown Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Joseph Addison There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Carl Sandburg A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Will Rogers A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Robert Hall A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
    Robert Hall
     
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  • R. Buckland A large body of research results demonstrates that an observer can be persuaded to conform to the majority opinion, even when the majority is completely wrong.
    R. Buckland
     
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  • Woodrow Wilson A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Mme de Stael A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Bertrand Russell A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Warren Buffett A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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