Opinion Quotes

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.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.