Quotes About Opinion

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name. (Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)

But but but what is the point of giving persons Freedom of Speech,' declaimed Butt the Hoopoe, 'if you then say they must not utilize same? And is not the Power of Speech the greatest Power of all? Then surely it must be exercised to the full?

no doubt much will be said elsewhere by the armies of bigotry and punditry. Let them volley and thunder. I'll speak of bookish things.

Nobody has the right to not be offended.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return

Mr. Harappa,' the Angrez television interviewer is asking, 'many commentators would say, there is a widely-held view, some sectors of opinion maintain, your opponents allege, what would you say to the suggestion, that by some standards, from certain points of view, in a way, your style of government might be described as being perhaps, to some extent ... (...)

Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.

Pero cuando se nos pide una opinión, no hacemos ningún favor a nuestros amigos fingiendo no apreciar defectos en su trabajo, en especial cuando quienes no son sus amigos están obligados a reparar en esos mismos defectos.

Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be.

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.