Quotes About Opinion

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

I regard President Trump as an international terrorist.

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

Nowdays it is the fashion to admire loudest what one understands least. - Mr Bingley