Opinion Quotes

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.

My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

How success changes the opinion of men!

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.

If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.

I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.

Everybody has their opinion on what's 'real,' and what's they choose to listen to and their personal preference. Whether they're 2 years old or 200 years old. And people can listen to whatever they want.

Works 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.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.

Polling 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.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

However people feel about Kanye is their opinion, but I think he's a genius.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.