Quotes About Opinion

Many of the non-Jewish respondents were certainly not of the opinion that the Third Reich had been imposed upon them against their will. Indeed, many shared the views of Rolf Heberer of Freithal who said that he had been "ecstatic" when Hitler came to power and that "for sixty million Germans, that was what the people really wanted.

We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

A Federal officer called Wyndham "a big bag of wind.

Platonic-Aristotelian analysis does in fact operate on the assumption that there is an order of being accessible to a science beyond opinion.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

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There is simply too much to think about. It is hopeless -- too many kinds of special preparation are required. In electronics, in economics, in social analysis, in history, in psychology, in international politics, most of us are, given the oceanic proliferating complexity of things, paralyzed by the very suggestion that we assume responsibility for so much. This is what makes packaged opinion so attractive.

That's because they don't know,' said Tyburn. 'It's like economics. Everybody's got a theory, and some people make it their religion.

You can say what you like about late-sixties architecture, but when they baked in the ugly they baked it in good.

Is that your professional opinion?" "Yes." "Which as usual," said Seawoll, "is as about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

We should tell forensics that the murder weapon may be archaeological," I said. "Archaeological?" asked Seawoll. "Could be," I said. "Is that your professional opinion?" "Yes.

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

Don't you understand? We're fighting an election here and the first rule is you can say anything you like, then deny you said it, then say it again.

A man who differs from another in Opinion sets himself above him in his own Judgement, and in several Particulars pretends to be the wiser Person.

I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.

I was neither devotedly pro- nor anti-Keynesian.

I was ambivalent about the proposal for a new consumer protection regulator.

A wave of criticism followed,