Quotes About Opinions

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.

I tell you, dear Citizen Camille—it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.

distrusted the permanent snare for his temporary opinions.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

We women never care about anything that no one else will take.

In those days the blackest deeds were done in politics, to secure public opinion on one side or the other, to catch the votes of that public of fools which holds up hands for those that are clever enough to serve out weapons to them. Individuals are identified with their political opinions, and opponents in public life forthwith became private enemies.

it is evident that historians are privileged liars, who lend their pen to popular beliefs, exactly as most of the newspapers of the day express nothing but the opinions of their readers.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot.

But I feel ugly, because one man said it was so, and that made it so. It's pathetic.

Do you have an opinion on anything?" "Not really." It was true, in a way. Opinions were for other people. It was fascinating how upset they got about them.

Opinions were for other people. It was fascinating how upset they got about them.

Why did people feel the need to comment on the rain, when they had absolutely nothing of value to add to the conversation?

I'd be at work, where people respected my opinions," said Nick. "And then I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot. I'd pack the dishwasher the wrong way. I'd pick the wrong clothes for the children. I stopped offering to help. It wasn't worth the criticism.

Funny how words disappeared, became quaint and ridiculous, like fashions and opinions you once held dear.

For someone who didn't want children, Erika had a wealth of parenting expertise she felt obliged to share. You

You should never ask actors about politics.

He didn't like her strong, nor did he like her weak.

We always sound confident when we're talking about the other person's book.

I'm not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I'll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit.

I take it that I have to address an intelligent and reading community who will peruse what I say, weigh it, and then judge whether I advance improper or unsound views, or whether I advance hypocritical and deceptive and contrary views in different portions of the country. I believe myself to be guilty of no such thing as the latter, though, of course, I cannot claim that I am entirely free from all error in the opinions I advance.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.

Opinions are announced in open court immediately before the start of the day's arguments. The justice who has written the majority opinion delivers a brief summary. A dissenting justice who feels particularly strongly might follow with a summary of the dissent. The statements that justices make from the bench are not part of the official opinion, but the few points that a justice might choose to emphasize from a long opinion can be illuminating for those present.