Quotes About Opinion

Voor de democraat staat vrijheid niet gelijk aan alles kunnen zeggen wat je denkt, maar aan niet over alles hoeven nadenken wat je zegt.

Jongeren zijn niet per se revolutionair, maar noodzakelijk dogmatisch.

To maintain that "all ideas are respectable" is nothing but pompous nonsense. Nevertheless, there is no opinion that the support of a sufficient number of imbeciles does not oblige one to put up with. Let us not disguise our impotence as tolerance.

In light of the majority of people today, one prefers them to speak hostile of religion

The effect of democratic rhetoric on taste is called disgust.

The leftist, like the polemicist of yesteryear, believes he refutes an opinion by accusing the holder of that opinion of immorality.

Men disagree less because they think differently than because they do not think.

Good taste that has been learned ends up being of worse taste than spontaneous bad taste.

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

Well, I was wrong!' Mrs Badger snapped. 'And I don't want you to say another word against Retsnom – do you

I am not getting into the rarebit versus rabbit argument. Whatever you call it, it is still cheese on toast.

Even if I believe my opinion to be true, and am highly confident about its truth, unless it is 'fully, frequently and fearlessly' discussed, I will end up holding it as a dead dogma, a formulaic and unthinking response.

Free speech is one of the core values in a democracy and it should be championed with a vengeance.

One reason why false and offensive speech is permitted in most liberal democracies is precisely because the best answer to bad speech is good speech, rather than censorship.

Manilov was pleased by these final words, but he still couldn't make sense of the deal itself, and for want of an answer, he began sucking his clay pipe so hard that it started to wheeze like a bassoon. He seemed to be trying to extract from it an opinion about this unprecedented business; but the clay pipe only wheezed and said nothing.

Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

There's always something fishy about the French.

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

LEO MERCURÉ: The Daily Express says (the play)'s disgusting. GILDA: We should be cut to the quick if it said anything else.

Whether you believe you're suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome or that 9/11 was an inside job, the World Wide Web exists to tell you you're right. You are always right.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....