Quotes About Opinion

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

The trouble was, he could read Three Men in a Boat without a single smirk and viewed P. G. Wodehouse as " infantile," so I had a suspicion the affliction was long-lasting and permanent.

Si el periodista es listo, en la entrevista sales listo; si es tonto, sales tonto. Y, como la mayoría de los periodistas son tontos... Créeme: no hay nada peor que un periodista. Salvo un político, claro.

Rojo sí, y a mucha honra; ahora, lo de peligroso... Pero si sólo soy un puñetero socialdemócrata, hombre, que es lo más inofensivo que se puede ser. Lo que pasa es que, en los tiempos que corren, los socialdemócratas parecemos rojos peligrosos.

One real truth is that people dislike admitting that they're affected by marketing, so they'll usually give the credit to a friend.

Luego cambia su opinión. Convence a la bombilla de que un repuesto es la mejor manera de conseguir luz aquí.

Taste is a matter of taste.

She doubted that he had ever uttered the words Have a good day in his entire life. Even if he got the right words out, the chill in his hazel eyes would completely nullify the warmth of the sentiment. In his opinion, your failure to have a good day was your problem, not his.

No se debe confundir la verdad con la opinión de la mayoría.

Here's what I say - when you don't know or can't know the answer to a question, why not believe the answer you like best? It's as valid as any of the others - and it might be right.

In fact, the real source of all thosedifferences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas thecitizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in theopinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely fromtheir judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence.

What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?

We can't have freedom unless we have freedom. And that means freedom to speak our minds.

Social man lives always outside himself; he knows how to live only in the opinion of others, it is, so to speak, from their judgement alone that he derives the sense of his own existence.

Even if philosophers were in a position to discover truth, who among them would be interested in it? Each knows well that his system is not better founded than the others; but he supports it because it is his.

le luxe est l'effet des richesses, ou il les rend nécessaires; il corrompt à la fois le riche et le pauvre, l'un par la possession, l'autre par la convoitise; il vend la patrie à la mollesse, à la vanité; il ôte à l'Etat tous ses citoyens pour les asservir les uns aux autres, et tous à l'opinion.

Si hubiese sabido desprenderme del yugo de la amistad, como del de la opinión, hubiera logrado completamente mi objeto, quizá el más grande, o a lo menos el más útil para la virtud, que jamás mortal alguno haya concebido;

Rapproche ces contrastes, aime la nature, méprise l'opinion, et connais l'homme.

Again I must enter into minute and detailed explanations. I hear my readers murmur, but I am prepared to meet their disapproval; I will not sacrifice the most important part of this book to your impatience. You may think me as long-winded as you please; I have my own opinion as to your complaints.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.