Quotes About Opinion

As she put it more wearily in a later interview in New Woman, Advertisers don't believe in female opinion makers. Steinem believes that it's the advertisers who've got to change. And she believes they will, though perhaps not in her lifetime.

Intolerance. The person with a "closed" mind on any subject seldom gets ahead. Intolerance means that one has stopped acquiring knowledge. The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.

Well, she said, that picture is the kind of picture that gives pleasure to the kind of people who like that kind of picture.

In 1973, the year of his death, Garrett railed against the constitutional right to vote, complaining how "the vote of the feeble-minded person counts as much as that of an intelligent man.

Cuando Martín declaró en el juicio que la única buena costumbre que él defendía era la de leer y que el resto era asunto de cada uno, el juez añadió otros diez años de condena a los no sé cuanto que ya le habían caído.

Stupidity is almost always in the eye of the beholder.

In this world, the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

que inventen ellos, que nosotros opinaremos. Unamuno

Gehen Sie nicht gern ins Kino, Fermin? Im Vertrauen gesagt, mich lässt diese siebte Kunst völlig kalt. Meiner Meinung nach ist das nichts weiter als Nahrung zur Verdummung der verrohten Plebs, schlimmer als Fussball oder Stierkämpfe. Der Cinematograph ist entstanden als eine Erfindung zur Unterhaltung der analphabetischen Massen und fünfzig Jahren später hat sich daran nichts geändert.

Ya lo decía Unamuno: que inventen ellos, que nosotros opinaremos.

La verdad son las tonterías que dice la gente cuando se cree que sabe algo

Indem Sie herkommen und gute Bücher lesen, die, die Ihnen gefallen, nicht die, von denen ich oder sonst jemand sagt, Sie sollen sie lesen - ich mag zwar affektiert sein, aber ein Pedant bin ich nicht.

Naïve realism creates a logical labyrinth because it presupposes two things: One, people who are open-minded and fair ought to agree with a reasonable opinion, and, two, any opinion I hold must be reasonable; if it weren't, I wouldn't hold it.

He felt it would hardly delight his fiancee should he reveal his true opinion, which was that his future mother-in-law's profile had struck him as so alarming that he would prefer in future to view only its muted reflection, perhaps on the surface of a tea tray.

It's her privilege to say or think whatever she wants. It's mine to ignore her.

Now I certainly had no intention of lying on the form, but I was trying to think of a creative way to make homemaker sound more important. Then the thought struck me: I am more concerned about the opinion of the individual who will read this questionnaire than I am about the approval of the One who has called me to be a homemaker. I had succumbed to worldly thinking rather than viewing my profession as the Bible portrays it—a high calling from God.

Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.

when like-minded people get together, they often end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk to one another.

Star Wars and Star Trek are good in different ways, and in fairness, you can't really rank them. But Star Wars is better. "YOUR

You can become radicalized in the sense that you come to believe, firmly, a position that is within the political mainstream—for example, that your preferred political candidate is not just the best but immeasurably better than the alternatives, and that any other choice would be catastrophic.

If public opinion cannot express itself through political associations, newspapers, and electoral politics, it will be channeled into mob violence

Tyler refused to listen to CDs, insisting that real vinyl records were the only way to go. Blair worried her brother was turning into a loser.

Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship, he told me. Haven't you learned that yet, Reuven?

Not only did Felix have a very high opinion of himself, but he was a man. Maybe the two were synonymous.