#opinio

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything. ↗

— Boy George

#anything #exist #freedom #i #jokes

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

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#arrogant #creatures #early #god-like #i

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any. ↗

— Otis Williams

#anyone #anything #asked #bill #coats

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#minority #new #opinion #precisely #starting

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#chopped #cut #get #make #media

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ↗

— Angela Carter

#angels #culture #high #higher #i

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#media #opinion #public #public opinion

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#bring #complicated #opinions #set #voting

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#behavior #between #confronting #economic #great