Quotes About Opinions

In 1960, just 5 percent of Republicans and 4 percent of Democrats said that they would feel "displeased" if their child married outside their political party.5 By 2010, those numbers had reached 49 and 33 percent, respectively—far higher than the percentage of people who would be "displeased" if their child married someone with a different skin color.

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me.

That don't stop you from advocating it. This is politics, Big Boy.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The ultimate intuitions on which ethics rests are not debatable, for they are not opinions we hazard but preferences we feel; and it can neither be correct nor incorrect that we feel them.

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do—isn't it enough just to express yourself.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Ask the average person his views on snakes and he will, within the space of ten minutes, talk more nonsense than a brace of politicians.

There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.

So many men, so many opinions.

Three Spaniards, four opinions.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.

There never were two opinions alike in all the world, no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.