Quotes About Opinion

I have been vociferous against government on things like beef. I used to eat beef, but I've stopped. That doesn't mean others shouldn't eat beef.

I am not advocating beef eating. But I am advocating freedom to have an opinion and a voice.

I believe Huckabee should have run again in 2012. Everyone was begging for him to do so. He beat Romney in 2008, and I believe he would have done it again in 2012.

Even I as an individual cannot talk on behalf of the entire industry.

If I'm being honest I hate the whole genre thing.

My advice gets misconstrued as being mean.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency

We live in a center-right country. Now watch me smile oleaginously.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half of the time.

My mind has been long fixed to bow to the judgment of the world, who will judge me by my acts, and will never take counsel from me as to what that judgment should be.

One need not become a candidate (though that's certainly an option worth considering) or a political addict hooked on every twist and every turn and every tweet. But the paying of attention, the expressing of opinion, and the casting of ballots are foundational to living up to the obligations of citizenship in a republic.

To blindly and repeatedly assert one's own position, one's own righteousness, and one's own rectitude in the face of widely held opinion to the contrary was not democracy. It was an attempt at autocracy—a bid, as Lincoln said, to "rule or ruin in all events.

As Lincoln remarked, "It is my private opinion that, if the Lord has been in Springfield once, he will never come the second time.

By closing our minds to the even remote possibility that a political leader with whom we nearly always disagree might have a point about a particular matter is to preemptively surrender the capacity of the mind to shape our public lives.

If Mrs. Roosevelt were writing today, she might put it this way: Don't let any single cable network or Twitter feed tell you what to think.

The perpetual threat of conflict—first with one European power, then with another—infused American politics with a sense of constant crisis. Both Federalists and Republicans believed the fate of the United States could turn on the confrontation of the hour. In the broad public discourse, driven by partisan editors publishing partisan newspapers, there seemed no middle ground, only extremes of opinion or of outcome.

Maybe – as my friend the documentary maker Adam Curtis emailed me – they're turning social media into 'a giant echo chamber where what we believe is constantly reinforced by people who believe the same thing.' We express our opinion that Justine Sacco is a monster. We are instantly congratulated for this – for basically being Rosa Parks. We make the on-the-spot decision to carry on believing it.

Glenn Beck did not fall into line. He told his listeners that Trump was a "dictator in the making.

But amongst a group who hadn't read it an opinion was beginning to form

He said ... Everyone's attention span is so short. They'll be mad about something new today.

Oh, Ronson's all right," Alex told him. "I'm sure he's planning some form of sophisticated hit piece, but I don't care. It's always artfully done so it goes back and forth, you know." "Why is he wearing a snow jacket in 90-degree heat?" Stone muttered to Alex.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.