- "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." – William Blake (1757-1827) British poet and painter.

- "Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

- "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third president of the United States.

- "The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion." – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

- "Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods –moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former –but no opinion." – Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-born American political philosopher.

- "Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct." – Jane Austen (1775-1817) English novelist, author of "Sense and Sensibility

- "Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent." – Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.

- "Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know." – Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) German philosopher.

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- “Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. ” – Abraham Lincoln

- “People with opinions just go around bothering each other.” – Buddha

- “To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.” – John Stuart Mill

- “My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.” – William Jones

- “We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.” – John Stuart Mill

- “The world is governed by opinion.” – Thomas Hobbes

- “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius

- “It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” – William Ralph Inge

- “When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you!” – Unknown

- “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F Kennedy

- “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

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