Quotes About Opinion

But don't I have any freedom of speech?" "In your own house. Not in mine." "Don't I have a right to my own ideas?" "At your own expense. Not at mine." "Don't you tolerate any differences of opinion?" "Not when I'm paying the bills.

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary.

Differences of opinion should not be construed as differences of principle.

Were taxes to be levied, Franklin warned, pandemonium would result. Especially when it came to imposing burdens on people, he observed, it was wise to consider what they were inclined to think as well as how they ought to think.

Franklin was perfectly philosophical on the subject: "For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.

The censure of fools or knaves," he would remind his wife, "is applause.

He was unflinching, but touched too on his secret weapon, one especially valuable in 1771: "The opinion of others," he assured his former father-in-law, "I very little regard.

Sometimes a person who is valued, respected, even loved by all, cares most, in the innermost recess of his soul, about the opinion of someone who stands uninterested outside the circle of admirers, and who may be, in the eyes of the world, of no particular importance, a mediocrity.

excluded from this collection of classic Solariana, whose only connection with the field was that for a lengthy period they researched public opinion, collecting the most ordinary views, the attitudes of non-specialists, and in this way demonstrated the astonishingly close relationship between changes in such views and processes simultaneously taking place among the ranks of scholars.

The "well-informed" think they know something about matters that the experts are reluctant even to speak of. Information at second hand always gives an impression of tidiness, in contrast with the data at the scientist's disposal, full of gaps and uncertainties.

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

The mass of people was ignorant, driven by fashions, fads, and the tongues of orators...

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

It is now my favourite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

It is now my favorite book of all times, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

I cannot stand people who disagree with me on the issue of Roe v. Wade... which I believe is about the proper way to cross a lake.

Why even dictate? Well, like a lot of other dictators, there's one man's opinion I value above all others. Mine.

Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the President's side, and the Vice President's side.

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

It is complete loose stool water. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind. - About The Da Vinci Code

Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I criticised things'. 'I beg your pardon?' 'You know, other people wrote things, performed things, painted things and I said stuff like, thin and unconvincing, turgid and uninspired, competent and serviceable,...you know'.

because long dresses are stupid and impractical.