#opinio

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#been #country #efficient #fed #hands

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#beset #citizen #compliment #evidence #good

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

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing. ↗

— Michael Moore

#become #channel #enemy #fox #fox news

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge. ↗

— Roy Moore

#judge #might #object #opinions #some

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. That's what they call ageing gracefully. You know? ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#call #gracefully #hide #interfere #just

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. ↗

— Donald Norman

#apt #everyone #in my opinion #opinion #optimal

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

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#committed #disappointing #effort #form #good