"All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion."
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"People with opinions just go around bothering each other."
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"To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility."
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"If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do."
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"Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves."
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"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
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"You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it."
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"I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I think that I am qualified to speak only when I've reached that state."
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"We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives."
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"It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph."
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"In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system."
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"The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same."
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"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge."
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"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them."
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"We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful."
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"Prejudice is an opinion without judgment."
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"We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us."
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"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."
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"The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion."
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"Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do."
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