#opinio

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

#attempt #being #being used #depress #heck

Public opinion in this country is everything. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#everything #opinion #public #public opinion

All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#billy #bob #consulted #either #issue

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#censor #citadel #contrary #convinced #hold

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#could #i #keep #like #myself

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#britain #canada #canadians #fervently #generation

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#commence #confidence #cowardice #disarm #distrust

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#conformity #entertain #faith #false #fear

The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter. ↗

— Zayn Malik

#daily #get #goodbye #hate #i