#pinions

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#chance #fight #opinions #survive #them

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. ↗

— James Montgomery

#dove #her #peaceful #pinions #silver

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. ↗

— John Morley

#even #good #hold #intelligent #little

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves. ↗

— James Payn

#before #careful #cases #class #considerable

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#back #biologists #centuries #going #human

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#commitment #due #experienced #expressed #fact

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#forces #help #need #opinions #require

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized. ↗

— Ben Hecht

#habits #hollywood #known #less #much

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#capacity #chinese #chinese government #come #contrary