#opinio

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#because #being #day #executed #find

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. ↗

— William Seward

#foolishness #opinions #purpose #change

I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly. ↗

— Barbara Dana

#disobedience #obedience #public-opinion #death

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? ↗

— Mary Astell

#her #his #how #man #opinion

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#formed #i #just #opinion #poor

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. ↗

— Edward Bernays

#democratic #democratic society #element #habits #important

We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts. ↗

— April Glaspie

#opinion

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#broke #consideration #elemental #leading #means

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#coalition #exactly #fact #free #freed