Performers who discourse strong political opinions often seem aghast that some people respond negatively to them: in the form of not attending their performances, or not buying their music, or opposing their speaking at other entertainment venues.
Lester DentA public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren BuffettMy opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm MuggeridgeThe world has reached such a degree of interdependence... that international cooperation has become essential... the only self-supporting region of the world is the whole world... Only one opinion and only one market cover the face of the earth.
Salvador De MadariagaIt's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers]
Stephanie McMahonIf there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
Samuel ButlerPublic opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man
William Ralph IngeWith this type of thing there are always different opinions and mine is that it is impossible to blame either one of us. [on a crash with Heidfeld]
Michael SchumacherOn good friend Nicole Kidman:
'I've never worked with her. I met her through a couple good girlfriends of mine. She has a great sense of humor. She laughs easily. I like hanging out with people who laugh easily. Contrary to popular opinion, I like to be a little silly.'
Russell CroweBetween friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W H AudenForce rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
Blaise PascalWe have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
John Stuart MillLies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis BaconIn my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S TrumanThe absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
CiceroIt does not matter if you think I'm clever or otherwise, my opinions are still the same and equally valid.
Thomas HarrisonIt takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph IngeCentral Africans are free to express their opinions without fear of imprisonment.
Francois BozizeIt were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
PlutarchThose who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth
Joseph JoubertDon't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Robert G AllenThere is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi
Luis Walter AlvarezIf my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds
MartialErrors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas JeffersonI think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand RussellWe cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Chuang TzuEverywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them
Flannery O'ConnorThe greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
Leo BurnettIn 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.
TocquevillePeople talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful in my opinion.
Margaret ForsterWorks 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.
E M ForsterI believe that artists should never relinquish all production control, which, in my opinion, is entering dangerous territory.
Veruca SaltMy opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
William JonesI've never been influenced by their opinions anyway but now we are talking tennis and they didn't know anything [on tennis journalists].
Tim HenmanPolling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
George GallupIf mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart MillHe that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel ButlerA wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
Frederick Scott OliverThere never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S GrantOpinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord ByronYou may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them
Fulke GrevilleThe conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward BernaysThere are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HippocratesAnd there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Neil GaimanEvery man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William HazlittA painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond De GoncourtMark has been a big part of my success in the last 10 months and we had a great run together, but we've had a difference of opinion regarding some aspects of my game. [on sacking Mark Petchey as coach]
Andrew MurrayI have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury.
George JoachimThe theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam SmithComedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
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