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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by…
— Benjamin Rush
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If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
— Thomas Sowell
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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
— Alexander Pope
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
— Wendell Phillips
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When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
— Laurence J. Peter
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
— Bertrand Russell
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
— Tacitus
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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly…
— Mark Twain
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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
— Mark Twain
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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
— Oscar Wilde
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be…
— Hannah Arendt
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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
— John Jay Chapman
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
— Wayne Dyer
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on…
— Albert Einstein
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine…
— Walter Benjamin
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and…
— Phillips Brooks
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
— Samuel Johnson
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We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
— W. S. Gilbert
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