Quotes About Opinions

Hard to remember these days that there was a time when you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.

Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.

To be successful, you need to learn to overcome your fear of being rejected and to stop worrying about what other people say and think about you.

Wallets can establish connections and change opinions. Things that fall apart can be glued back by money with astonishing alacrity.

Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books.

She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it was her proud duty to think out those opinions, and make them responsible and coherent.

Tu tiempo es limitado, no lo malgastes viviendo la vida de alguien distinto. No te quedes atrapado en el dogma, eso es vivir como otros piensan que deberías vivir. No dejes que los ruidos de las opiniones de los demás acallen tu propia voz interior. Y, lo que es más importante, ten el coraje para seguir a tu corazón y tu intuición. Ellos ya saben de algún modo en qué quieres convertirte realmente.

Caring too much about what people think about your visionary venture—the one that is flooding you with energy—is an excellent way to ensure you do nothing that matters

Ljudi ne provedu život u osrednjosti zato što su prose?ni. Oni se tako ponašaju jer su zaboravili ko su zaista. Prihvatili su mišljenje drugih ljudi i sebe su po?eli da doživljavaju kao 'prose?ne' i 'obi?ne'.

Processing and filtering customer input allows for objectivity and promises that whatever action you decide to take is more in line with market demand than with personal opinions. Celebrate

Gene Siskel used to describe old-age makeup as making young actors look like turtles.

Toleration means being prepared to accept opinions that you intensely dislike. Likewise democracy means consenting to be governed by people whom you intensely dislike. This

The freedom to entertain and express opinions, however offensive to others, has been regarded since Locke as the sine qua non of a free society. This

Robert Conquest once announced three laws of politics, the first of which says that everyone is right-wing in the matters he knows about.

The letters between the two philosophers were cordial, although Spinoza at first distrusted Leibniz, who in turn referred to him privately as 'a Jew expelled from the synagogue for his monstrous opinions'. Since the fundamental assumptions behind their two systems are profoundly similar, it is perhaps not surprising that the two philosophers – whose conclusions are wholly opposed – should have treated each other with a certain caution.

What was most destructive about the Nazi propaganda against the Jews was not so much the expression of those nasty opinions, but the suppression of those who sought to refute them. It was the lack of free speech that allowed the opinions to rampage out of control

I have no objection to the expression of political opinions in SF if they are an integral part of the story structure. I don't at all appreciate their intrusion for the purpose of converting a story into a political tract, because I consider that intellectually insulting.

In "the general course of things, the popular views and even prejudices will direct the action of the rulers.

Whatever may have been my political opinions before I have but one sentiment now. That is we have a Government, and laws and a flag and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now, Traitors & Patriots and I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.

People tended either to embrace Hamilton or to abhor him;