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Letter "O" » Opinions
«Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think»
«There is no such thing as right and wrong, there's just popular opinion.»
«So many men, so many opinions»
«They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion»
«The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
| About:
Opinions,
Pain
| Keywords:
hasty, Human nature, leap, undergo
«Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments»
«They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money»
«Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is»
«Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
compared, determines, indicates, public opinion, tyrant
«There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against politica»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Independence,
Opinions,
Politics
| Keywords:
collective, encroachment, encroachments, good condition, legitimate
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