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Quotes About Opinions

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is no such thing as a false idea.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.
~ Noam Chomsky
I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.
~ Reid Hoffman
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
~ John Stuart Mill
The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.
~ Chris Evans
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
~ E. B. White
America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.
~ Mario Balotelli
One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.
~ Matt Groening
If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!
~ Michael Stipe
If Vladimir Putin says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him.
~ Donald Trump
I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.
~ Wes Anderson
I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.
~ Jo Brand
I enjoy talking about politics a great deal.
~ Seth Meyers
Everything that is popular is wrong.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.
~ Melissa Etheridge
I think actually in any party it's a sign of general health to have different views, and especially on the subject of trade.
~ David Brooks
Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
~ James Surowiecki
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
~ Queen Victoria
Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.
~ Adam Grant
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
~ James Anthony Froude
It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche