Opinion Quote by David Hume Download Open image “All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.” — David Hume ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Opinion
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed. — William Jones Copy Share Image
Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Power belongs to the intelligence of evil. It's totally unreflective, like Donald Trump. It belongs there. — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If you want to edit your photos and make yourself look different, go for it. That is up to you, but in my opinion,… — Peyton List Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
