We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
I’ve never had a humble opinion. If you’ve got an opinion, why be humble about it?
In England, you’re allowed to have an opinion – as long as it comes out of your mouth.
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent.
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone’s face or body.
And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.
I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I’ll look like an idiot because I didn’t say I don’t like it. It’s OK to have an opinion.
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
As long as I’m happy with myself and mentally happy, it doesn’t matter what other people think. Everyone’s always going to have an opinion, you can’t stop that.
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we’re used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we’re moving closer and closer to that tipping point.
My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people’s opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.
I’m not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I’ve studied intently for 50 years, so I may know a thing or two. In my opinion, the JFK investigation was poorly handled.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion – which may not be the most informed in the room. If you have humility concerning the gaps in your experience or ability, it allows others to shine.
A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
If you’re going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don’t love it, then we don’t need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.
Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I’m responsible for a lot of things, I can’t wear any responsibility for that.
I don’t care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can’t be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don’t care what other people think.
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion and you can’t stop anyone from expressing their thoughts.
Contrary to popular opinion, things don’t go stale particularly fast in the art world.
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.
You’re allowed to rip-off another score so close that it’s ridiculous. In my opinion it’s ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I’ve seen, without exception, in my opinion don’t work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they’re going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.
You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don’t necessarily know what they’re doing. You don’t necessarily know what kind of universal concept you’re tapping into.
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
I was really involved with other people’s opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don’t have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It’s not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.
I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that’s been fed to them.
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.
I’m really not interested in other people’s opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
We’re still leaderless. We still don’t have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn’t a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
Good parents, who are able to maintain the affection and respect of their children and whose offspring admire them and value their good opinion, can be reasonably certain that their values and ways of socialized behaving will be adopted by the next generation.
Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to ‘keep him in his place.’
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
I think marriage is a cultural thing – it’s my opinion that nature doesn’t tell someone to get married.
In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor’s ‘Barsaat,’ they changed the way we looked at playback singing.
I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government’s racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
I don’t want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn’t mean you have less of a right.
It’s fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
Being bold is being fearless and having an opinion about issues.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn’t want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.
When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it’s a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.
