Opinion Quotes - page 10

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves. (Peter Benenson)
We confess our faults, to make amends by our sincerity for the harm they have done us in the opinion of others. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." [...] The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property. View quote
Benjamin Graham
Confuse not love with the ravings of possession, which bring the worst sufferings. For contrary to the general opinion, love does not cause suffering. But the instinct of ownership causes suffering, which is the contrary of love. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. View quote
Murray Rothbard
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it. View quote
Noël Coward
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. View quote
Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that's horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it's nothing. It's just bibble-babble. It's like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks. (Harlan Ellison)
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door. View quote
William Rehnquist
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. View quote
Timothy Garton Ash
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history. View quote
John Dos Passos
I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters. View quote
Iain Banks
Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable - this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience's opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity. View quote
Chuck Jones
To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. View quote
Michael Moorcock
There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion. View quote
Ahmed Djemal
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. (Leo Burnett)
In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind. View quote
Michael Foot
The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them. View quote
George Orwell
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. View quote
George Orwell
In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one. View quote
Roy Hattersley