Quotes About Opinion

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.

It's not objective. It's subjective." Katya hooks her bra behind her back. "It's just what you think, not the truth.

I may change my opinion on the same subject, the same event, ten, twenty, thirty times in the course of a single day. And to think that each time, like the worst impostor, I dare utter word "truth"!

Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two.

Not even that. It may be halfway in the wrong direction. I can't explain. I don't believe in all these fads, and yet I don't like saying that I don't believe in them.

Sarah Palin is living proof that you can't make a silk purse out of a horse's ass.

Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Is this Enya?" "Grimes," Sarah said. "Sounds like Enya." "Whatever, Nickelback.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

Ah!" he exclaimed, "how right you were to tell me to marry respectably; to have a solid position; to live in decorous fear of the world and one's wife; and to command the envy of the poor, the good opinion of the rich. You have practised what you preach.

Il faut absolument que la Superstition et le Fanatisme fassent place a la Philosophie. (It must necessarily happen that superstition and fanaticism give place to philosophy.) Kings persecute persons, priests opinion. Without kings, men must be safe; and without priests, minds must be free.

Opinion was to be free as air; and in order to make it so, it was necessary to exterminate all those whose opinions were not the same as Mons. Jean Nicot's.

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, "It would be nice."