(1916 quotes found)
“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
Bertrand Russell
“I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?”
Joan Baez
“My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”
William Lloyd Garrison
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
John Stuart Mill
“The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief”
Jacques Ellul
“The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.”
Frederick W. Robertson
“Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.”
“The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.”
Walter Bagehot
