The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. – Hosea Ballou
Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket. – Gene Weingarten
I have thousands of opinions still – but that is down from millions – and, as always, I know nothing. – Harold Brodkey
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions. – Harvey Mackay
I’m really not interested in other people’s opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts. – H. G. Bissinger
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. – John Jay Chapman
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. – John Stuart Mill
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. – Josh Billings
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. – James F. Cooper
But that’s the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions. – Jake Owen
I have a mentor. I have… guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to. – Jake Gyllenhaal
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. – James Madison
I don’t have to muzzle myself when I’m a civilian. When you’re a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that. – Jesse Ventura
I learned my lesson early in my career that it’s not helpful to go and look at what other people’s opinions are. – Jenny Slate
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions. – Jimmy Breslin
I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be ‘fixed’ – I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines – ever asks the opinions of teachers. – Jonathan Kozol
There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t. – Josh Billings
If you’re playing a character that someone doesn’t like, that’s okay, but if you’re voicing your own opinions, they actually don’t like you! – Jennifer Coolidge
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. – John Stuart Mill
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves. – James Payn
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting. – Jerry Saltz
I put less stock in others’ opinions than my own. No one else’s opinions could derail me. – Judd Nelson
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. – John Locke
