#opinion

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#beliefs #criticism #criticize #freedom #freedom-of-speech

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#opinion #time #nature

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#lives #most #opinions #other #passions

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#public-opinion #censorship

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#public-opinion #self-esteem #self-esteem

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#explain #gossip #life #people #public-opinion

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#every man #facts #his #man #opinion

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire. ↗

— Kim Basinger

#balloon #clever #desire #going #helium

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#mine #opinion #problem #real #real problem

Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days. ↗

— William Tyndale

#any #came #confirm #council #days