Quotes About Opinion

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn't change the fact he's wrong most of the time.

It may be bizarre but in my opinion science offers a sure path to God and religion.

With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.

Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

La politique n'est pas, comme on veut absolument le faire croire, l'art de conduire l'opinion publique, mais bien la façon dont les chefs s'inclinent en esclaves devant les courants qu'eux-mêmes ont créés et orientés.

la verdad, ni bien es pronunciada, se transforma inmediatamente en una opinión entre tantas, es contestada, reformulada, reducida a un tema discursivo entre otros.

other people's condiments are depressing.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

He who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than ehe who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.

September 22nd. [1860] (To Mrs. M. J. Green) Your kind congratulatory letter of August was received in due course, and should have been answered sooner. The truth is I have never corresponded much with ladies; and hence I postpone writing letters to them, as a business which I do not understand. I can only say now I thank you for the good opinion you express of me, fearing, at the same time, I may not be able to maintain it through life.

_Not really liking it much_ is a precondition of art criticism of all kinds.

As Jonathan Swift said in 1721: 'Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.

The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn't escape Yoko for more than four minutes at a time.

Radio One played "Ebony and Ivory," a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it two times in a row which was pretty hardcore of him as it was clearly the worst song of the decade so far, perhaps of the entire century.

Improved reporting practices have enabled the Court to get its message out, and quickly. Nowadays, in any given case a majority of justices ordinarily sign on to a single "Opinion of the Court," an opinion widely viewed as the last word on the Constitution's meaning. Meanwhile, a partisan and crumbly Congress has often found it hard to speak with one voice, and presidents have come to be seen as party politicians rather than impartial magistrates.

if you can say something that is provably false, and no one cares, then you can't have a real debate about anything.