Quotes About Opinion

Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.

Censorship: It allows you not to think for yourself.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Politics is downstream from culture.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.