Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
People always have an opinion. Doesn’t mean it’s right, doesn’t mean it’s wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion – and I worried about it.
Ask everyone whether they’re an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Well, I couldn’t do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that’s what we’re built on.
I do not at all have the mind of a bully… in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.
I do my best to hold the director’s opinion above my own.
I don’t like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, ‘What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?’ and they get a round the applause. I think, ‘Well that’s not a joke. That’s just your biased opinion.’
I don’t ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
People who don’t know me have opinions about me. That’s the part that’s very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you’ve never met them or spent any time with them? So it’s all based upon hearsay or things that they’ve read.
I’m of the opinion that it’s okay to be silent, to not speak if you don’t have anything to say.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn’t take one person’s opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.
‘The Impossible Dream’ is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.
Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial. The young people I meet want more freedom – to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
I don’t speak up if I’m working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!
I have an opinion. I have my own taste.
I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can’t be all about a man’s opinion.
The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can’t worry about that.
They’ve just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there’s a proper time for a pat down, there’s a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it’s accessed by the world.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
People in rock had this idea that rappers aren’t talented. In my opinion we’re better writers, we think deeper, and our concepts are harder – Rap evolves faster than any other genre.
The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
You’re in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That’s one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.
We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.
I’m very mindful that I am representing the Philippines, so I cannot voice an opinion that contradicts that of our leader, Pres. Duterte.
In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Religion has nothing to do with God. It’s a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it’s religion that produces God, not the other way round.
The shouting and opinion and jokes don’t exist if there isn’t first a story.
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person’s intellect. It becomes your default position.
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
Over time, I think, and with further appointments to the Supreme Court, I think that the Roe v. Wade opinion will fall.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don’t care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that’s my opinion but because I think it’s actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It’s that simple.
You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don’t fear being judged.
I’ve always been of the opinion that great talent can’t be held down.
People are entitled to their opinion. I respect them, but it doesn’t mean they’re right.
In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.
A team championship doesn’t happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we’re all 10s on this team.
I want to suggest a feeling. It’s ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.
Things happen every day. You can’t spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you’ve wasted your life.
In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she’s now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it’s an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues. Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a stand to protect his nation’s children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda.
I only want three children for every family. I’m a Christian, but I’m a realist, so we have to do something with our overpopulation. I will defy the opinion or the belief of the Church.
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
