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Men are only as loyal as their options.
Men are only as loyal as their options.
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.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to read more
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, read more
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny
Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one!
Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one!
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
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.