Opinions Quotes

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

Ezra Pound

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

People with many opinions tend not to believe in anything.

Unknown

While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does

Unknown

For most men (till by losing rendered sager), Will back their own opinions by a wager

Lord Byron

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them

George Bush

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

Unknown

As it is with people,so it is with colour. We change,correct or reverse our opinions about colours and this opinion may shift back and forth.

Albers, Joseph

Words are not deeds. In published poems we think first of Eliot's "Jew", words edge closer to deeds. In Cline's anti-Semitic textbooks, words get as close to deeds as words can well get. Blood libels scrawled on front doors are deed. In a correspondence, words are hardly even words. They are soundless cries and whispers, "gouts of bile," as Larkin characterized his political opinions, ways of saying, "Gloomy old sod, aren't I?" Or more simply, "Grrr." Correspondences are self-dramatizations. Above all, a word in a letter is never your last word on any subject. There was no public side to Larkin's prejudices, and nothing that could be construed as a racist the word suggest a system of thought, rather than an absence of thought, which would be closer to the reality, closer to the jolts and twitches of self response.

Martin Amis

There is no use for demonstrations, as your enemy loves to terrify and suppress opinions, and despises peoples.

Hojatoleslam Muqtada al-Sadr

To me, capital punishment is a form of societal self-defense. It should not be employed indiscriminately, but in cases of the most heinous crimes, the death penalty may be the only appropriate punishment. Some people believe it is right to take a life to save the life of someone else, but they would not vote to take the life of a convicted criminal, no matter how horrible the crime. Others believe that killing another person for any reason is simply wrong. I respect those opinions, but I disagree with them. I'm convinced that government has a duty to promote community defense. The death penalty, when applied in appropriate cases, can be a strong deterrent to crime. It is certainly a deterrent to the convicted criminal sentenced to death, and it is also a deterrent to other potential capital offenders.

John David Ashcroft