Quotes About Opinion

Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher—" "Detest is a little inappropriate," Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to say I spent the entire Eighties wishing I was pissing on her rotting corpse.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Your voice sounds as if you don't think much of the nineteenth century." "Right," I said, "I detest it." "You're wrong," he said, "nonsense. Even the architecture wasn't as bad as it's made out to be.

Ted shows me his school composition, a rewrite of Snow White from the point of view of the dwarves: 'So you think we liked Snow White? You are completely WRONG.

Just because I'm painfully honest does not mean I'm right.

And other times—too often, maybe—I don't dare have an opinion in case it upsets anyone.

I had to give her a C because she spoilt an otherwise thoughtful piece by suddenly concluding that the Church of England was Anne Boleyn's "fault." A Church is not the "fault" of anybody.

wrote no letters to the editor. Cool admiration, but no fire.

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

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

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.

George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra--the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities.

But she had learned that it was smart not to reveal that all her senses were in full working order; instead, she allowed people to act in accordance with their own preconceptions. This was often a useful source of information, and Maud could form her own opinion of the person and the situation.

How do we understand prejudice, hatred, and violence in the context of modern societies, like our own, among people much like ourselves, among men and women who lived, not in dark times, but in an era when the balance of opinion was against the all-too-open expression of hatred?

Ought I not to have been more careful to win the good opinion of others, more determined to conquer their hostility or indifference? It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation--to force the esteem of others--seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate