A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
In court, jurors are admonished by the judge at every recess not to discuss the case or form any opinions until the case is given to them for deliberations. Of course, there is no such limitation on the public.
I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.
It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.
I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.
I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to ...
Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.
This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support.
I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.
If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.
I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.
I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.
Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.
