No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
Opinion Quotes
Nowadays, “public opinion” is more smoothly and easily ventriloquized. I am sure you have had the experience of making up your own mind on a question and then discovering, on the evening news of the same day, that only 23.6 percent of people agree with you. Ought you to be depressed or disconcerted by this […]
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
You finally have to realize that what’s really important is your own life. If I’m going to use as criteria for my happiness someone else’s opinion of what I’m doing and their rejection of what I think is good, then I’m going to be very unhappy.
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
Opinion is power.
I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote.
With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.
That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinion I have no respect.
