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Opinionated Quotes (page 43)

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Martin Luther King jr.
But so went forth Darnell, day by day, strangely mistaking death for life, madness for sanity, and purposeless and wandering phantoms for true beings. He was sincerely of opinion that he was a City clerk, living in Shephard's Bush -- having forgotten the mysteries and the far-shining glories of the kingdom which was his by legitimate inheritance. Arthur Machen
Rene Descartes quote: "At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation..."
At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions. Rene Descartes
It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nucular waste hangin' about for millions of years. 'Snot worth growin' up for, if you ask my opinion. Neil Gaiman
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man. Galileo Galilei
Voltaire quote: "No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for."
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for. Voltaire
Jane Austen quote: "It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their..."
It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first. Jane Austen
They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. Harper Lee
...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. Arthur Koestler
Brigham Young quote: "Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have..."
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? Brigham Young
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be. John Stuart Mill
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. Douglas Adams
Thomas Jefferson quote: "The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the..."
The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory. Thomas Jefferson
No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. Jodi Picoult
None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who disregarded the by-laws of society, yet lacked courage to suffer the results of their boldness: to seek the good opinion of the world, and yet secretly to act counter to its idea of decorum, was a very contemptible hypocrisy. W. Somerset Maugham

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