These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.
I was told when I was little I couldn't have an opinion because you want everyone to buy your record and like you.
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
I care what people think, but it doesn't change my opinion of how to do things.
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
I still have to work paycheck to paycheck. Being in show business doesn't indicate that you're a 'success,' in my opinion.
I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.
I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.
But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.
A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.
When I got to 'The Daily Show,' they asked me to have a political opinion. It turned out that I had one, but I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.
If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
