#opinio

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ↗

— Mark Twain

#chain #freed #human #human soul #loyalty

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#good #in my opinion #lot #making #making money

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#deception #greatest #opinions #own #suffer

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#african-american community #claim #community #different #diverse

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #away #born #cannot #communicate

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the real world it is more dangerous. In the west people think it's a right they're born with. Here it's a right given by the government, and one that's not really practised. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#chinese #citizens #constitution #dangerous #express

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#cannot #circumstance #course #earlier #equipped

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#always #ask #back #choices #come

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#attention #desire #feel #give #i

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#been #before #court #done #gone