Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view,… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
In my own experience, including when I ask for advice, I would ask a collaborator, a friend, I also like to hear… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of… — Richard von Weizsaecker Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I do think the whole question of judicial accountability is a complicated one. On the one hand, you want to encourage judicial… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons… — Dean Lombardi Copy Share Image
I really want to have a really, really strong, one-sided opinion on something, and be connected to it and tell that story.… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
“Keep your negativity to yourself. After watching you poison your own life with your opinions, I would be foolish to let you… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I'm aware that at the big, big clubs stuff can change quickly, as can opinions and people in charge. Not everyone is… — Joe Hart Copy Share Image
I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I'm allowed to have my opinions as an American, but it seems the Left becomes very intolerant when you have an opinion… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A lot of people expend great time and effort explaining why they don't like me, but none of them ever try to… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
If you find my aggressive and dominating play dirty, then that's your opinion. But I would assume most people want someone who… — Ndamukong Suh Copy Share Image
A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It's very hard to argue with the politics of 'Black Watch,' because it is not an opinion; it is just the true… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus… — Laura Cereta Copy Share Image
I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The question that we, as a society, have to ask is, are our collective rights worth a small relative advantage in our… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the… — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement:… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
