Opinion Quotes

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

But since you're asking me, I'll tell you my opinion: all cornbread is authentic, as long as it's good, hot, and made with love and fresh ingredients.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.