Quotes About Opinion

People want to criticize everything you do. People criticize Pacquiao, Mayweather or Obama, everyone that is at the top of their game.

We have a president[Barack Obama] who doesn't have a clue. I would say he's incompetent, but I don't want to do that because that's not nice.

I thought it was very unfair. I thought what happened to Mitt Romney was very unfair in the third debate. So, I'd want to be. I'd want to have somebody that I think could be fair.

I don't even think Hillary Clinton's loyal to Bill Clinton, if you want to know the truth. And really, folks, really? Why should she be, right?

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!

The American people don't want additional troops on the ground.

Everyone has freedom to say whatever they want to say. I think it takes a stronger person to hold their tongue as opposed to speaking out.

Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice - especially when it's to the contrary.

You`re learning, friend.` `The lessons of civilization.` `Just so. There`s little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious weed, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself.` `With words.` `Indeedm with words. Form an opinion, say it ofren enough and pretty soon everyone`s saying it right back at you, and then it becomes a conviction, fed by unreasoning anger and defended with a fight to the death.

Indeed, with words. Form an opinion, say it often enough and pretty soon everyone's saying it right back at you, and then it becomes a conviction, fed by unreasoning anger and defended with weapons of fear. At which point, words become useless and you're left with a fight to the death.

Torvald Nom: "There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious weed, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." Karsa Orlong: "With words." "Indeed, with words. Form an opinion, say it often enough and pretty soon everyone's saying it right back at you." – HoC 236

Hatred is a most pernicious weed, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself.' 'With words.' 'Indeed, with words. Form an opinion, say it often enough and pretty soon everyone's saying it right back at you, and then it becomes a conviction, fed by unreasoning anger and defended with weapons of fear. At which point, words become useless and you're left with a fight to the death.

It is not for you to judge – yet how often is it that those in no position to judge are the first to do so, and with such fire and venom?

Fidel Castro's opinion about Reagan offered right before the election: "We sometimes have the feeling that we are living in the time preceding the election of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany." Libya's Kaddafi was not to be left out of the parade, saying, "Reagan is Hitler number 2!" (This is admittedly confusing, since most radical Arab leaders like Hitler.)

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts. —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I don't know Stallman well. I know him well enough to know he is a hard man to like." (And that was in the preface of Stallman's own book!)

You can't argue with facts. You're not entitled to your own facts.

We typically don't know enough individually to form knowledgeable, nuanced views about new technologies and scientific developments. We simply have no choice but to adopt the positions of those we trust. Our attitudes and those of the people around us thus become mutually reinforcing. And the fact that we have a strong opinion makes us think that there must be a firm basis for our opinion, so we think we know a lot, more than in fact we do.

When you say anything controversial, you are likely to be blamed not so much for what you have said as for what people think that someone who has said what you said would also say.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.