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Quotes About Opinions

People will judge you no matter what, so be who you are and what you want to be. Don't worry about what anybody else thinks.
~ Unknown
The worse thing you can ever do to yourself is to be ashamed of being you just because of what other people will think...that's a suicide to your existence.
~ Unknown
had begun, one fine day, to regard him as stupid and absurd because the friends that she had among the younger writers and actors had assured her that he was, and she duly repeated what they had said with that passion, that lack of reserve which we show whenever we receive from without, and adopt as our own, opinions or customs of which we previously knew nothing.
~ Marcel Proust
Apenas discerni que repetir o que toda a gente pensava não era em política um sinal de inferioridade, mas de superioridade.
~ Marcel Proust
Of a different order again were those of M. de Charlus, as we shall presently see, with people wholly unlike Mme. de Villeparisis. In spite of which we must bear in mind that the opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk, are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
~ Marcel Proust
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
~ Marcelene Cox
Quoting Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists, the Court stated that the First Amendment requires "'that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions.'" Thus, "Congress was deprived of all legislative power over mere opinion, but was left free to reach actions which were in violation of social duties or subversive of good order.
~ Unknown
Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.
~ Marcus Luttrell
We should never let our personal opinions screw up smart business choices.
~ Unknown
It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.
~ Margaret Cho
I have no sympathy for people who find unpopularity embittering.
~ Marianne Moore
San Josemaría fomentaba un clima vital abierto, en el que cada uno pudiera manifestarse sencillamente como era, y en el que se respetaran las opiniones de unos y otros. Detestaba la tiranía, «porque es contraria a la dignidad de la persona humana»
~ Unknown
You'll only beat your fears once you get to the point where you care more about your purpose than what people think of you.
~ Adam Kirk Smith
I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.
~ Larry Hite
I'm always sketchy of people who don't like grits.
~ Unknown
Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
~ Frederick Douglass
Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.
~ Larry Flynt
I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.
~ Shepard Fairey
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
~ Archibald MacLeish
The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.
~ Ayn Rand
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
~ H. L. Mencken
When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
~ Thomas Jefferson