Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; […]
Opinion Quotes
Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is is almost omnipotent.
I would like to be allowed to admire a man’s opinion as I would his dog without being expected to take it home with me.
Flop, v. Suddenly to change one’s opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticized as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.
Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foundation of the esteem of those who are of all beings the most subject to change.
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 […]