Walter Bagehot Quotes

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Man is what he believes.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

I've run my mouth pretty good about my beliefs.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Everyone has an opinion.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

The opinions of people are determined by their interests.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

An individual can have a point of view. He is entitled to that.

I do have strong opinions.

Viewers don't want you to walk the fence - they do want a point of view - and that's what we bring.

One man with beliefs is equal to a thousand with only interests.

Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can’t all be right. Better make certain that you’ve got something to be sincere about and with.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

It is what men think that determines how they act

Propaganda as a mere tool is no more moral or immoral than a pump handle....the only effective weapon against propaganda on behalf of one policy seems to be propaganda on behalf of an alternative.

It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his tribal identity depends on his not understanding it.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

In an ideological, polarized political environment, people see the reality that they want to see.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.