Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, the most inexhaustible form of magic we have, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it. (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”)
Opinion Quotes
The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some errour in Reasoning, or some sudden force of the Passions. Defect in the Understanding, is Ignorance; in Reasoning, Erroneous Opinion.
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, and to throw off, by the force of their own minds, the prejudices which the maturing reason of the world will in time disavow, must learn to brave censure… We ought not to be too anxious respecting the opinions of others – […]
Public opinion is the greatest force for good, when it happens to be on our side.
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
The weakness of public opinion is that so many people express it only privately.
So many men, so many opinions.
Public opinion has come to mean what public opinion polls measure: the vagaries of the public viewpoint at a moment in time, however vague, confused, ill informed and clouded with emotion it may be. Public judgment, on the other hand represents the public’s viewpoint after all elements of mere opinion have been distilled from it. […]
