My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
I don’t argue with opinions, and I don’t argue with opinions. I don’t argue against them, and I don’t argue using them.
I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
People will always have opinions about your decision because they're not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
People with too high an opinion of themselves get cut down; people with too low an opinion of themselves get pushed around....
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
With consumers having ever more choice, corporations must invest more and more in courting public opinion.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try t...
Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful.
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.
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.
Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
