Opinion Quotes - page 5

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. (Robert H. Jackson)
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. View quote
Hippocrates
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care. View quote
Pablo Picasso
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. View quote
Alfred Jodl
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up... View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion. View quote
Eric Hoffer
When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch. View quote
Bette Davis
Of this voyage, I observe,' says the Admiral, 'that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened. View quote
Christopher Columbus
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. View quote
George Bancroft
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. (Abraham Lincoln)
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. View quote
John F. Kennedy
It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like? View quote
John Chrysostom
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me. View quote
Anna Freud
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. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character. (Elizabeth Goudge)
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. View quote
Elihu Root
The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. View quote
Les Brown