The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.
What you think of me is none of my business.
When anyone tells me I can't do anything… I'm just not listening any more.
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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