Quotes About Opinion

I've been a staunch Republican.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like... but no one has to do anything about it.

You have to stay true to yourself, and as long as you are comfortable, then no one else's opinion matters.

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak knife than to have been slowly bled to death with McCain paper cuts. Say what you will, but Obama has brought about a patriotic and civic renaissance, the likes of which I have never seen.

I think my opinion of Hollywood must stem from my own, philosophy as a man.

All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.

Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening.

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

Thomas Frank

While its proponents might get the facts wrong, they get the subjective experience right.

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.

The right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.