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New opinions
are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other
reason but because they are not already common.
-- John Locke
1632-1704, British
Philosopher
The foolish
and the dead never change their opinions.
-- James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet,
Critic, Editor
Listen,
everyone is entitled to my opinion.
-- Madonna
1958-, American Musician,
Singer, Actress,
False opinions
are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and
thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the
crime without knowing what they are doing.
-- Joseph De Maistre
1753-1821, French Diplomat,
Philosopher
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Opinions
cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
-- Thomas Mann
1875-1955, German Author,
Critic
A point of
view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight
and understanding.
-- Marshall Mcluhan
1911-1980, Canadian
Communications Theorist
The peculiar
evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it
is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing
generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more
than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are
deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth:
if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the
clearer perception and livelier impression of truth,
produced by its collision with error.
-- John Stuart Mill
1806-1873, British
Philosopher, Economist
I care not so
much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my
own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
-- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French
Philosopher, Essayist
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