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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
Finley Peter Dunne

Good, Alcohol, Himself

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Gustav Mahler

Life, Failure, Working

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden

Friends, Between, Irritating

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer

Men, Power, Evil

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
Rush Limbaugh

Another, Used, Public

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

Courage, Brave, Another

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Democritus

Nothing, Everything, Else

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Theodor Adorno

Good, Someone, Him

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
John Stuart Mill

Anyone, Act, Exercise

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Martha Gellhorn

Tough, Stand, Citizen

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.
Cornel West

Rather, Climate, Shapes

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.
Rick Barry

Time, Read, Opinions

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
Bryant H. McGill

Acceptance, America, Themselves

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
John Stuart Mill

Evil, Sure, False

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
William Lloyd Garrison

Wrong, Popular, Terms

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
Augustus Hare

Public, Hold, Follow

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
Christopher Hitchens

Made, Why, Public

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
Marilyn vos Savant

Able, Defend, Rational

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Men, Courage, Face

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
Jerry Saltz

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Fast, Popular

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade

Today, Long, Silence

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.
Stephen Harper

Focus, Stand, Public

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Alanis Morissette

Humor, Song, Charming

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
Sargent Shriver

Respect, Another, Valuable

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Henry James

Great, Woman, Another

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
Gustave Flaubert

Life, Nature, Enjoy

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Peace, Mind, Nothing

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.
Ted Demme

Legal, Humble, Sure

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