Opinion Quotes

I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

There are a few versions of the Alexander movie on video, only two that matter. One is from 2007, and then the one from 2014. It's called "the Ultimate Cut." That is the best version in my opinion. I was unsatisfied with the original theatrical release. It was rushed. It was my fault. I accepted it. I always felt it should have been done the way Tarantino did Kill Bill. I thought, we should release this in two parts with an intermission. But at that time, in 2004, it was impossible.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

The Depression, which started in 1929 was rather mild from 1929 to 1930. And, indeed, in my opinion would have been over in 1931 at the latest had it not been that the Federal Reserve followed a policy which led to bank failures, widespread bank failures, and led to a reduction in the quantity of money.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion… Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them…he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.

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.

The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

People seem very arrogant when they say 'I'm right and you're wrong', but in practice we all believe we're right. We have a staggering arrogance in our own belief. That can be tempered by not being 100% certain; by being provisional. No matter what the debate is, very few people have the modesty to suspend judgement on a whole range of things; most intelligent people have an opinion and are expected to have an opinion by other people - but it always requires making a personal judgement that goes way-beyond your expertise. We do it all the time.

I’ll defend your right to be a bigot.

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

A minority may be right. The majority is always wrong.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.