Quotes About Opinion

wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question.

The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label.

The American people thoroughly despise and hate their newspapers; yet they seem to have no idea what to do about it, and take it for granted that they must go on reading falsehoods for the balance of their days!

But the more unsaintly the world became, the more it had need of new saints, by whatever name they were called—persons who believed in justice and freedom more than they believed in personal comfort and the good opinion of the personally comfortable.

The government were going to do everything possible to avoid offending a touchy Reichskanzler, even to the extent of censoring British opinion on the subject of "Munich." American newsreels which ventured criticism were barred, and a strict rule against censure of Chamberlain was being enforced by the British radio.

What the masses in America read was newspapers and low-priced magazines; also, they listened to the radio and went to the movies. If you wanted mass circulation, those were the ways to get it. They were all enormously expensive and conducted for the profit of private owners; a genuine liberal among the owners was as rare as a white blackbird, and that was why opinion in America lagged so far behind mechanical development—including the aforesaid A-bomb.

In wartime it appeared that nobody wanted to see both sides of any question. IV

I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as ons is forced to think.

M. Mabeuf's political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

One may feel a certain indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some

Now, there's a young man who looks like a real pedant, for you!

La opinión política del señor Mabeuf consistía en amar apasionadamente las plantas, y sobre todo los libros. Tenía, como todo el mundo, su terminación en ista sin la cual nadie hubiera podido vivir en aque tiempo, pero no era ni realista, ni bonapartista, ni carlista, ni orleanista, ni anarquista: era librista.

She found him insipid, silly, stupid, useless, conceited, offensive, impertinent—and extremely ugly. The

Hay muchas bocas que hablan y pocas cabezas que piensan.

Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone.

Everyone ignores two important facts: one person's crap is another person's beloved book, and publishing has always produced books in great volume.

You know, in the past, I would've gotten yelled at for that kind of outspokenness. Now everyone listens as if what I have to say is important, and then they find ways to contradict me. I think I like the yelling better.

If I think it's true, no matter why or how I think it's true, then it's true, and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Live in the all,' " Melville wrote to Hawthorne. What nonsense!… This "all" feeling…there is some truth in. You must often have felt it, lying on the grass on a warm summer's day. Your legs seem to send out shoots into the earth. Your hair feels like leaves upon your head. This is the all feeling. But what plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

If you read, you'll judge.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.