Quotes About Opinions

I hate estimable young men with brown eyes!

Mercy me! I don't know anything about love and such nonsense! Cried Jo, with a funny mixture of interest and contempt.

In politics, I am indifferent what side she may be of; I think I have arguments that will easily convert her to mine.

To his astonishment, the officers agreed with Lee's views and in a manner, scoffed Hamilton, that "would have done honor to the most honorable society of midwives."27 Washington preferred to operate by consensus

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so.

She cared for everybody, and yet for no person's opinion.

In addition to all that, a man may have any opinions he likes without that being any of the sovereign's business. Having no standing in the other world, the sovereign has no concern with what may lie in wait for its subjects in the life to come, provided they are good citizens in this life.

Every man is entitled to his own religious opinions; but no man – least of all a junior – has a right to thrust these down other men's throats

You must not obey a majority, no matter how large, if it opposes your principles and opinions.' He said this to each new volunteer and repeated it over and over to him, until it was engraved on his mind. 'The largest majority is often only an organized mob whose noise can no more change the false into the true than it can change black into white or night into day. And a minority, conscious of its rights, if those rights are based on moral principles, will sooner or later become a just majority.

On such an approach, Mill argues, anyone could demand as a 'social right' that nobody act in any way falling short of her own standards of perfection. He sees this as a 'monstrous' principle with the potential to justify virtually any interference with individual liberty – ultimately leaving us no zone of freedom beyond, perhaps, 'that of holding opinions in secret, without ever disclosing them' (Mill [1859] 1974: 158).

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

Nothing is simple. There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

A reporter is not only a megaphone into which dozens of figures, names and opinions are shouted. He'd also like to say something on his own occasionally. But what am I supposed to say?

I can compel no man to agree with my opinions, but at least I can compel him to have an opinion.

No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance seem to the eye like one body; a sense-deception, as when the noise of the many at a distance seems to the ear like a single voice.

If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Haters are just confused admirers.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

I don't really care if they like me or not.

If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it.

Je n'aime pas les bruns qui chantent blond. –