Quotes About Opinion

I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.

People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway.

As an opinion maker, I'm not your friend. I'm not here to be popular.

Religion is man-made. Every religion says my 'God is the best.'

Football is like this. The better the team you play for, the more fans follow you and there are millions of coaches and managers around the world! Some of them understand football one way; some of them have another opinion.

Of course London is a fantastic city, but I like Manchester.

I think that Manchester United, since I was young - and I'm not just saying this because I'm here; I'm an honest guy, and I never lie - I think it's the biggest club in England. That's what I think.

Trump is a maniac.

The most common criticism I get is that I'm being manipulated and you shouldn't use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can't think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I'm also allowed to have a say - why shouldn't I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people's minds?

Our real opinion is not one in which we have never wavered, but the one to which we have most regularly returned.

In college I read John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which contains this thrilling declaration: "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary 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."23 We seem to have gone, in one generation, from the bracing atmosphere of Mill's On Liberty to the dark, dank atmosphere of Orwell's 1984.

Even though JFK fought in World War II, he retained a soft spot for Hitler as late as 1945, when he described him as the "stuff of legends . . . Hitler will emerge from the hate that now surrounds him and come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures to have lived."36

You are sure that you are right but you don't want everyone to think as you do. There is no truth without fools.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

I was a kid and a little pedantic but I still maintain I had a point.

How many times have you hooked other people's attention, and spread poison about your loved one in order to make your opinion right? Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true.

The other people I don't take too seriously are the critics—except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they're just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it's spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they've rediscovered old, and they're celebrating detail and ornamentation.

Brunetti had long been of the opinion that one of the handicaps of stupidity was its inability to imagine intelligence.

Brunetti thought of Parliament in the way most Italians thought of their mothers-in-law.

What do you think about America? Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

And what does a person with such a romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics? He asked this as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extract my opinion while I was still captive in his office. 'If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective,' I said, 'I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.' He laughed. 'The great romantics are often failed classicists. But that's beside the point, isn't it?

Well, I don't know who wrote this, said Francis at last, his tone offhand and perfectly casual, but whoever they were, they certainly couldn't spell.

In my opinion, the greatest sin in the church of Jesus Christ in this generation is ignorance of the Word of God. Many times I have heard a church officer say, "Well I don't know much about the Bible, but..." and then he gives his opinion, which often actually contradicts the Word of God! Why doesn't he know much about the Bible? These things were written aforetime for our learning. God wants you to know His Word.

But if people really mean to tell us that here in this world a believer can attain to entire freedom from sin, live for years in unbroken and uninterrupted communion with God, and for months at a time not even have one sinful thought, I must honestly say that such an opinion appears to me very unscriptural.