Quotes About Opinion

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

In the opinion of architects such as Harvey Wiley Corbett, skyscrapers were America's great gift to architecture, the first new structural form since the ancient Romans

They felt the poorhouse would always be there, exempt from time. That some residents died, and others came, did not occur to them; a few believed that the name of the prefect was still Mendelssohn. In a sense the poorhouse would indeed outlast their homes. The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinion and even into those of our grandfathers.

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

It's always up to other people to say if something is art. I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

Forget it," I said. "Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he'd still be preferable to listening to the two of you.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

My family do not think I'm special - not one, one bit.

Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.

Let's be honest, there are a lot of family movies; I like some of them, I don't like other ones.

All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.

My father used to say that stupid people think. (I really don't agree with him!)

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear