Best 1736 quotes in «opinion quotes» category

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

Politics and religion are topics that people tend to stay away from in their conversations, because they're polarising. But they are important topics, so they should be discussed the most, so we should know each other's opinions on them.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.

Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.

Probably not a surprise that, among the people of Mexico, just 4 percent say that they have a positive opinion of [Donald] Trump. Seventy-five percent say they have a negative opinion.

Producers don't like the director who ignores their opinion - but I always try not to be the nicest person when making a movie. It's easy to do that. Just say 'Yes sir', "Alright', 'Okay' - but they're not seeing the movie because if they can, they should be directing the movie.

Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Public opinion wins wars.

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.

Remember that all is opinion.

Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

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.

Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

Sharing art makes me feel vulnerable. Sharing a piece of you that cannot be objectified, that is so truly you. It is scary releasing new music to the public, because as soon as you do, it becomes a shared receptacle to which others can attach their own opinion and meaning. What makes it scary is also what makes it worth doing.

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked her opinion, slapped her on the knuckles figuratively speaking when she was on the wrong track, and acknowledged that she was right when she corrected him. Dammit, he had treated her like a human being.

Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Sarah Palin has strong opinions on the Libyans. She said, 'Marriage is between a man and a woman and Libyans like Rachel Maddow are what's ruining this country.'

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.