Conspiring Quote by Dawna Markova

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

— Thomas Jefferson

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it…

— Walter Bagehot

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies,…

— William Hazlitt

For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the…

— Amin Maalouf

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

— Napoleon Hill

We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature…

— Anonymous

“I consider the most terrifying verse in all Scripture to be Matthew 12:36: “But I say to you that for every idle word men…

— Dick Brogden

The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy…

— Parker J. Palmer

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to…

— James Harvey Robinson