Quotes About Opinion

If the view is correct, then humanity misses the opportunity to exchange truth for error. If, however, the view is misguided, then we forfeit an opportunity to reinforce truth through its collision with error. Every opinion has value for us either because it is true, or else because, though false, it reinforces the truth and contributes to its emergence.

Anyone who silences someone else because they believe the other person's opinion is false assumes infallibility. They must be absolutely certain that they are correct on the matter.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Cuando comprendes que toda opinión es una visión cargada de historia personal, empiezas a comprender que todo juicio es una confesión.

This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

So what the media do, in effect, is to take the set of assumptions which express the basic ideas of the propaganda system, whether about the Cold War or the economic system or the "national interest" and so on, and then present a range of debate within that framework—so the debate only enhances the strength of the assumptions, ingraining them in people's minds as the entire possible spectrum of opinion that there is.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

The intelligent minority are a "specialized class" who are responsible for setting policy and for "the formation of a sound public opinion

If American opinion has been uninformed, misinformed and prejudiced, the missionaries are largely to blame. Interpreting history in terms of the advance of Christianity, they have given an inadequate, distorted, and occasionally a grotesque picture of Moslems and Islam.

About half the population thinks that every person in Congress, including their own representative, should be thrown out. That's the center not holding.

I'm sure you believe everything you're saying. But what I'm saying is that if you believe something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.

they do not hate us, but rather the policies of our government...

One lesson is that to understand what is happening we should attend not only to critical events of the real world, often dismissed from history, but also to what leaders and elite opinion believe, however tinged with fantasy. Another lesson is that alongside the flights of fancy concocted to terrify and mobilize the public (and perhaps believed by some who are trapped in their own rhetoric), there

Take a look at the polls. The public overwhelmingly supports higher taxes on the wealthy, which have declined sharply in this period of stagnation and decline—higher taxes on the wealthy and preserve the limited social benefits.

But much more to my taste, at least, are quite different tendencies, for example, that range of opinion that extends roughly from Rosa Luxemburg and the Dutch Marxist Anton Pannekoek and Paul Mattick to the anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker and others.

La industria de las «las relaciones públicas» consistía en controlar la opinión pública.

The planned elections seem "more designed for the consumption of US Congress and world opinion than for the Guatemalan people."69

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

What people know, what they believe, what they accept? Those are all different matters, aren't they?

He'd learned quickly enough that when you cooked for a family, everybody was a critic.

People who say not to speak ill of the dead just don't have the spine to say what they think." "You've

Tyler tested it himself and found he agreed with her. We'll let it age a bit. A lot of things become what they're meant to if you leave them alone awhile. Is that philosophy I hear? You want an opinion, or just somebody to agree with you? I guess wanting both was expecting too much. There you go.

Bless her heart, she must've been drinking when she bought that dress. He