Hosea Ballou quote: "The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important."

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those op...
HOSEA BALLOU

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

People have got lots of opinions and when you're losing those opinions come out even more.
ANDY ROBINSON

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself....
OSCAR WILDE

Loving yourself means not allowing other people's opinions of you to be more important than how you ...
STEPHANY CROWLEY

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished ...
NAPOLEON HILL

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.
JEROME LAWRENCE

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think o...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When...
CRISS JAMI

I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong ...
WYNTON MARSALIS

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don&#...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opini...
SHERI S. TEPPER

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
WILLIAM HAZLITT

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT

We respect the rights of people to express their opinions. We ask that while they express those opin...
GREG HAND

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and comp...
LEWIS B. SMEDES

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
DAISY BATES

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any
DAISY BATES

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter...
ANNE SULLIVAN

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion ...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Golf has more rules than any other game because golf has more cheaters than any other game
BRUCE LANSKY

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they ar...
JOHN LOCKE

During the evaluation and the scoring process, I saw no indication of any bias or any attempt to swa...
DAVE GOYKE

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no ma...
ANNE SULLIVAN

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
THOMAS MANN

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
ALAIN RENE LE SAGE

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them
THOMAS MANN

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
CHARLES MCCABE

our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, ...
JOHN STUART MILL

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

This is a process that has been followed by a number of other taxpayers with the tax court, and many...
CRANE KENNEY

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix...
MARILYN FRENCH

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
CHARLES MCCABE

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art
CHARLES MCCABE

Americans have more food to eat than any other people and more diets to keep them from eating it
BARBARA JORDAN

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men n...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

People are entitled to different opinions and views. Just because somebody doesn't agree with you do...
DEON POTGIETER

Is there any thing Men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of ...
LAFCADIO HEARN

Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself d...
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to ...
MARILYN FRENCH

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the...
C. JOYBELL C.

Life isn't determined by the opinions of others, but by the choices we make in those opinions.
SUSIE L HILL

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

We expect an exchange of opinions to take place and hope that nobody will put forward any conditions...
KHALED MASHAAL

The most liberating feeling in the world is to not give the negative opinions of others any traction...
CARLOS WALLACE

IF THERE AREN'T ANY GODS THEN ALL HUMAN VALUES ARE JUST OPINIONS
DONALD LYNN FROST

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, tha...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he l...
MAIMONIDES

Facts are nothing more than mutually agreed upon opinions.
ZAIN UL ABIDEEN

I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

We believe this venture safer and more affordable than any other spaceflight ventures that the U.S. ...
MICHAEL GRIFFIN

The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.
SOURCE UNKNOWN

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important...
GARY NEVILLE

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talen...
EZRA TAFT BENSON

I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
GABOUREY SIDIBE

I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
JACK WHITEHALL

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.
JUAN PABLO GALAVIS

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational spe...
ZIG ZIGLAR

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason f...
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Without a dog, no one will listen to your opinions for more than a few minutes without interrupting ...
W. BRUCE CAMERON

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them
GEORGE BUSH

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
GEORGE BUSH

Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH

The truth of God must be announced before the arrival of your opinions. If not, your opinions are no...
SUSIE L HILL

Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for ...
MARTIN LUTHER

The Europeans should get used to hearing other opinions, even if they don't like them.
HAMID-REZA ASEFI

Why worry about what people think of us do we have more confidence in their opinions than in our ...
PETER T. MCINTYRE

Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all.
G. C. LICHTENBERG

Only you can define you. No one else's opinions should have any impact whatsoever.
ELIZA LEAMY

The best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people's o...
TRAVIS BRADBERRY

I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different...
ALEXEI MORDASHOV

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opin...
JOHN GRIERSON

I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those ...
H. G. BISSINGER

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish peopl...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
LAWANA BLACKWELL

Malice can be spotted more easily in eyebrows than in opinions
CHRISTOPHER MOLINEUX

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane peopl...
GEORGE ELIOT

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justic...
MARTIN LUTHER

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.
HENRY LOUIS GATES

Never care what other people think of you. You are master of your own ship of life & move ahead of y...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

They decide by drawing a marble from a leather bottle until they've all been assigned an opinion. Th...
CHRIS DAVEY

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating ...
ANDRé GIDE

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sak...
WILLIAM BLAKE

We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers...
EDDIE REDMAYNE

Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with a...
SHARON SALZBERG

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

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