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"I just kind of shoot the finger to the critics. I don't give sh - what a critic says. To me a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions."
"I actually don't have...opinions. I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things but I don't view those effects as good or bad."
"Given that everyone is giving you their own opinion about him, I think the only opinion you should listen to is yours."
"The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence."
"Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another."
"What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!"
"Every opinion reacts on him who utters it."
"We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake."
"Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty."
"Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself."
"As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice."
"No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration."
"In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind."
"Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life."
"Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument."
"But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying."
"Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue."
"Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view."
"He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end."
"And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities."
