Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and
fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of
eternity.
-- Lord Acton
1834-1902, British
Historian
Public
opinion is a second conscience.
-- William R. Alger
1822-1905, American
Writer
Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in
the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.
-- Marcus Antonius
c.83-30 BC, Roman
Triumvir, Related to Julius Caesar
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