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"The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion."
"I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it."
"When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do."
"If I get a bad review, I dont take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion."
"Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas."
"My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace."
"It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't need a lot of money for it. The way I tell my story or my opinion would be very similar in both fiction and documentary forms. But I found I could speak more effectively to convey this brutal reality through documentary than I could through fiction."
"Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion."
"I’m keeping my opinions to myself, they just get me in trouble."
"My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best."
"An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue."
"The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it."
"Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power."
"Everything is mere opinion."
"The world is mere change, and this life, opinion."
"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature."
"No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion."
"There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher."
"Not in opinion but in nature is law founded."