Opinion Quotes - page 2

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. (Martin Van Buren)
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. View quote
William Hazlitt
Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me. View quote
Maria Callas
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. View quote
Edmund Burke
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. (Gore Vidal)
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. View quote
Henry James
And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. View quote
E. M. Forster
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. View quote
Angela Carter
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. View quote
Marcel Pagnol
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. View quote
Walter Cronkite
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. (George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax)
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
You want my opinion? We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love. View quote
Robert Fulghum
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. View quote
Jane Austen