The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
Expressing an opinion with an empty soul can complicate your duty of respecting the opinions of others.
No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.
Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of others, the processes of thinking are impregnated with ressentiment. The establishment of “cri...
A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you ...
In general, opinions contrary to those commonly received can only obtain a hearing by studied moderation of language, and the most cautious avoidance of unnecessary offence, from which they hardly ever deviate even in a slight degree without losing g...
Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before who...
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinio...
The only time I want someone's opinion is when I ask for it. Reason why I don't ask for anyone's opinion nowadays is because they are too afraid, they always cover the truth with a lie, which is something I hate tremendously. When I ask for your opin...
Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.
It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!
Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.
had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. {Edison's opinion of the great }
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!
Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear … than a fact that he wishes was an opinion.
It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
