Opinion Quotes

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.

The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.

People's opinions don't interfere with me.

In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized; you can't tell which judge wrote it.

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

I treat opinion polls with a pinch of sugar.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

It is always easy to criticize, as Bernie Ecclestone is somebody with extreme opinions.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism is my opinion.

I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me.

Party is organized opinion.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

Very few people have no opinions about cats.

Unless you are fulfilling your spiritual mission (and this is my opinion totally), you anaesthetize yourself or you wound yourself.

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

Sometimes you need a little courage too just to buck popular opinion.