The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
Opinion Quotes
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind’s leading of the blind.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion – it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Honesty, sincerity, and openness I esteem essential marks of a good mind. I am, therefore, of opinion that men ought, (after they have examined with unbiased judgments every system of religion, and chosen one system, on their own authority, for themselves), to avow their opinions and defend them with boldness.
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
When did ignorance become a point of view? (“Dilbert”)
Use your own best judgment at all times.
Every religion is to be found in juxtaposition to a political opinion which is connected with it by affinity. If the human mind be left to follow its own bent, it will regulate the temporal and spiritual institutions of society upon one uniform principle; and man will endeavor, if I may use the expression to […]
