"There are not too many people with an opinion I care for."
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"When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center."
"Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef."
"An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it."
"The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion."
"The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side."
"Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women."
"Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society."
"Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion."
"No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy."
"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."
"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters."
"Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them."
"They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely."
"Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential."
"Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all."
"A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion."
"We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that."
"A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions."
"Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances."