Quotes About Opinion

Como nunca antes, el estudiante y la persona interesada por la literatura lee comentarios y críticas de libros más que los propios libros, o antes de esforzarse por formarse un juicio personal.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.

When a politician, on a subject implicating science says, 'the debate is over', you may be sure of two things: the debate is raging, and he is losing it.

What does it matter who a person is or who they have been? Let them think what they like. We're all so many people, aren't we, nowadays? So confusing it is, I don't know how anyone keeps track. There are the people we are inside, then the people we used to be, then there are the people other people think we are.

He was opposed to capital punishment—"institutionalized sadism," he termed it—and in favor of prison reforms that would emphasize rehabilitation. His opinions were generally conservative, however, and he did not subscribe to the fashionable view of the sixties that criminals were victims of society.

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.

A minority may be right; a majority is always wrong.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

Most experts suggest that one should open with a joke. Obviously, they've never heard me tell a joke.

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.