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.
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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?
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight read more
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're read more
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's read more
People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but read more
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may read more
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
