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Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.


Neil Postman


#elections #irrelevance #media #nate-silver #news

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.


Criss Jami


#brain #compatibility #difference #differences #friendship

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.


Milan Kundera


#man #opinions #attitude

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions--one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true.


Oscar Wilde


#attitudes #beauty #creativity #opinions #public

A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped.


John Barnese


#open-minds #opinions #thought #change

Just remember: other people’s opinions are simply that—other people’s opinions. They are not fact, and they are certainly not “the truth.” It is your responsibility to question the authority you give others, to question opinions they want you to adopt as your own, and to question how it is they are observing the world themselves that has them seeing things as they do. Sometimes you need to take back the authority you are giving to the opinions of others and place a bit more trust in yourself.


Margie Warrell


#opinions #trust #courage

Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere.


Charles Dickens


#mrs-general #opinions #education

I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.


Shania Twain


#my own #opinions #own #share #songs

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.


Criss Jami


#circumstances #faith #faithfulness #god #imparting

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.


Criss Jami


#beliefs #beware #brainwashed #conviction #freedom-of-speech