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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change read more
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one!
Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one!
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as read more
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.
And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred read more
And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. read more
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside read more
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them
I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them