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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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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.
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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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.
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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature (1625) -
There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
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