"I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less."
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"Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion."
"One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own."
"Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know."
"Everybody has their opinion and they are going to critique you."
"What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind."
"It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers."
"Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character."
"Every reform was once a private opinion."
"In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion."
"If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men."
"Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital."
"I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion."
"The universe is in change, life is an opinion."
"Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt."
"Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves."
"You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out."
"People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true."
"This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion."
"Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions."