Quotes About Opinion

We like to think that all people have hidden depths, but the fact is that a lot of people are shallow. The vast majority don't have an opinion until they tune in to AM radio or read the papers. Then they become social critics.

democratically expressed opinion is hardly more than the applause at a sports event.

Without information, deliberation, and the power to make one's decision effective, democratically expressed opinion is hardly more than the applause at a sports event.

Die bequemste öffentliche Meinung ist noch immer die öffentliche Meinungslosigkeit.

Ta sammub uhkelt minema, sest tal õnnestus meid, viimase klassi gümnasiste, sõnalahingus võita. Tõepoolest, tema arvamus on siin tüüpiline, sellega kohtud siin üha jälle ega oska ka midagi arukat vastata, sest kui asja üksnes sellest küljest võtta, siis kaob arusaamine teistest seostest.

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

You had to know Putzi to really dislike him. That

Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off.

considered Churchill to be capricious

Once a man forms an opinion, he starts interpreting facts in the light of that belief. He ceases to be an impartial judge of facts.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

I always like the bad ones. I know he's a bad one of some sort.

And tell me, who is the greatest writer in America? My husband, said my wife.

Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.

turned around and looked after her. "If she did not have her hair cut so short she would be a pretty girl," he said.

Se voglio dire che il disegno – costruzione di una cosa o oggetto o strumento – è fatto bene, è bello, certamente lo posso dire quando voglio... ma se non sono un potente non lo posso sostenere.

Yes, facts don't mean a thing, do they? What you want to believe, that's the only truth!

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.

If I have played the Judas, who has been my Christ that I have played the Judas with? Was it Thad Stevens? Was it Wendell Phillips? Was it Charles Sumner? These are the men that stop and compare themselves with the Savior; and everybody that differs with them in opinion, and to try to stay and arrest their diabolical and nefarious policy, is to be denounced as a Judas.

For instance, I love the movie Casablanca. Who doesn't? No matter how many egghead critics declare Citizen Kane to be the greatest American movie, we all know it's Casablanca in fact.

Now, to me, this was a very interesting story. It was a reminder that you should never let yourself get swept away by the crowd. Sometimes everyone you know can be saying something or believing something and it can just be dead wrong. All around you there might be people getting all excited or panicked and yelling for you to do the

The majority of British people did not want the arrival of large numbers of blacks and Asians, just as they did not want an end to capital punishment, or deep British involvement in the European Union, or many of the other things the political elite has opted for.

One person sees the beautiful view and the other sees the dirty window