Quotes About Opinion

There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Fish not, with this melancholy bait,For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.

But in the gross and scope of my opinion,This bodes some strange eruption to our state.

Vox populi, vox Humbug.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

What is good is only a matter of opinion in secular society. Using society's own standard of goodness, careful observation of the bigger picture may reveal that a particular good has been outweighed by general evil. When a society defines its own morality and then applies it to itself, that society can justify its own serious breaches of character. It is able to lower the standard to the detriment of all.

Every idiot has an opinion. I should know because I am one of them.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

The United States is a land of free speech. No where is speech freer—not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

In 1759, the great lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson wrote: 'Advertisements are now so numerous they are very negligently perused.' An opinion many people express to this day, without realizing its centuries-old ancestry.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]

A fallen person who is away from God and who is without God is altogether an embodiment of opinion. It

To practice the one spirit with the Lord is the medicine to heal the disease of opinion.

A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.