#opinion

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

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#changes #concurred #discoveries #great #important

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American. ↗

— David Mamet

#because #entitled #get #i #opinions

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#anything #care #earth #face #hardest

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#call #even #fiery #going #opinions

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification. ↗

— Jim McKay

#change #confront #film #made #me

'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#beautiful #best #ever #in my opinion #incredible

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#based #emotion #experience #had #impossible

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#often #opinions #palpable #popular #seldom