Quotes About Opinion

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Fenimore Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

In light matters--matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things--he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

The Church still prizes the Moral Sense as man's noblest asset today, although the Church knows God had a distinctly poor opinion of it and did what he could in his clumsy way to keep his happy Children of the Garden from acquiring it.

Immer, wenn man beginnt die Meinung mit der Mehrheit zu teilen ist es Zeit sich zu besinnen

I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed.

I believe that the trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value--certainly no large value.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have steak just because a baby can't chew it.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

Some of you are most likely thinking that white is not really a colour and all of that tired sort of nonsense. Well, I'm here to tell you that it is. White is without question a colour, and personally, I don't think you want to argue with me.

White is without question a color, and personally, I don't think you want to argue with me.

Asch también descubrió que bastaba con que una sola persona se atreviera a expresar su opinión y diera la respuesta correcta ante el sujeto del experimento para que este se sintiera liberado para responder correctamente también. El desacuerdo hace que la mente se libere del miedo.

Los ciudadanos pueden volverse entonces indiferentes a la verdad y optar por la comodidad de un grupo de iguales en el que aislarse y en el que repetirse falsedades unos a otros. Puede que comiencen a temer dar su opinión y prefieran el consuelo de un líder que les proporcione una sensación de protección como la del interior del seno materno. Y puede que se vuelvan agresivos unos con otros y que se culpen del dolor del miedo.

Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

most people, and Christians in particular, are thermometers that record or register the temperature of majority opinion, not thermostats that transform and regulate the temperature of society.

Every revolutionary movement has its peaks of united activity and its valleys of debate and internal confusion. This debate might well have been little more than a healthy internal difference of opinion, but the press loves the sensational and it could not allow the issue to remain within the private domain of the movement. In every drama there has to be an antagonist and a protagonist, and if the antagonist is not there the press will find and build one.

In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.