Quotes About Opinions

There will always be some films that the audience would like and some that they don't. But if I start becoming a slave to appreciation, I will be subjecting myself and my talent to one particular type of taste. I don't want to do that.

I certainly don't approve of American actors who go to Europe and run down Hollywood.

I never argue with people about movies.

People are always arguing: New York or L.A.? They're both great places, you know.

Arguing is fun when you think you have all the answers.

I've never bought the argument that people are apathetic about politics.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

Opinions are caught like infection, and put into practice without examination.

Journalism, so far from being in the hands of a priesthood, came to be first a party weapon, and then a commercial speculation, carried on without conscience or scruple, like other commercial speculations. Every newspaper, as Blondet says, is a shop to which people come for opinions of the right shade. If there were a paper for hunchbacks, it would set forth plainly, morning and evening, in its columns, the beauty, the utility, and necessity of deformity.

They hated each other's opinions, but they valued each other's character. If such conflicts and such sympathies are not true elements of intimacy we must surely despair of society, which, especially in France, requires some form of antagonism.

It is from the shock of characters, and not from the struggle of opinions, that antipathies are generated.

A newspaper is not supposed to enlighten its readers, but to supply them with congenial opinions. Give any newspaper time enough, and it will be base, hypocritical, shameless, and treacherous; the periodical press will be the death of ideas, systems, and individuals; nay, it will flourish upon their decay. It will take the credit of all creations of the brain; the harm that it does is done anonymously

The people are a many-headed beast.

I never said all Democrats were saloon keepers. What I said was that all saloon keepers were Democrats.

The human understanding, once it has adopted opinions, either because they were already accepted or believed, or because it likes them, draws everything else to support and agree with them. And though it may meet a greater number and weight of contrary instances, it will, with great and harmful prejudice, ignore or condemn or exclude them by introducing some distinction, in order that those earlier assumptions may remain intact and unharmed

the world becomes a better place – an easier place to navigate if we admit that even though there are opinions, they may be wrong.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Johnson had a sense of humor, and he could kid with me," he would say. "Johnson didn't enjoy talking with most liberals. He didn't think they had a sense of humor.

I have a lot of time for vegetarians (though apparently not all of them have a lot of time for me), and that's because I respect anyone with principles about food.

In Pakistan, a perception has been officially cultivated that anyone who offers facts, statistics or opinions that do not coincide with the national narrative does so at the behest of Pakistan's many external enemies.

You are who God says you are, not who people say you are. Don't try to base your life on the unstable foundation of human opinions, but instead, build on the unshakable truth of God.

It had stickers on the bumper to proclaim every ill-considered political opinion that had ever crossed Turk's apolitical mind.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

Oh, people will think what they think!...Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who do.