#opinio

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#chance #fight #opinions #survive #them

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#defend #difficult #know #opinion #part

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#earth #find #i #intelligent #opinions

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. ↗

— John Morley

#even #good #hold #intelligent #little

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #exhibit #form #law #masses

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ↗

— Kate O'Brien

#enough #everywhere #go #i #i think

People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#i #likes #my own #opinion #own

On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform. ↗

— George A. Romero

#about #been #bit #coin #express

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

#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#ask #because #believe #censorship #character