“I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.” ThinkingArtOpinionBenefitsModelsSittingAskingBeesSitting AroundDomsQuiltingBetsy Ross Author:Kiki Smith
“Bypass surgery, angioplasty,and even diagnostic angiograms are so over used that, in my opinion, it constitutes criminal behaviour by the cardiologists and surgeons involved. Well controlled scientific studies have shown bypass surgery simply doesn't work, except to relieve severe chest pain. Those who have the surgery didn't even have a trend of longevity benefit compared to those treated without it. Yet, each year hundreds of thousands cave into the obvious fear tactics used by agressive heart doctors and submit to the bypass operation” YearsWellsHeartPainUsedOpinionStudyInvolvedBenefitsDoctorsObviousCriminalsTreatedOperationsControlledChestsTrendsSubmitBehaviourLongevitySurgerySevereCavesTacticsSurgeonsBypassCardiologistAgressive Author:Julian Whitaker
“The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.” MenMatterShowsGovernmentWould BeIndividualInterestLibertyOpinionIssuesBenefitsIndependencePressesConvincedEvery ManSecureDiscussionFreedom Of SpeechFoundersDeclarationUnlimitedPropositionsHistoricPublishDeclaration Of IndependencePublic InterestDissemination Author:John Marshall Harlan II
“Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.” GivingMindHumansArtBookOpinionDependsBenefitsAdversityProsperityGravesDelightfulInseparableArt And ScienceComforter Author:Bill Vaughan
“Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe opinions, and the like. Children should be taught at an early age what constitutes evidence, how to detect biases or distortions in newspaper accounts, and that there exist hierarchies of information sources. In the medical field, for example, a controlled experiment published in a peer-reviewed journal is a better source than a blog by the Ginseng Growers Association, promoting the health benefits of their own product.” ShouldChildrenFactsAgeOpinionInformationExampleFieldsTaughtProductsSourceEasierBenefitsEvidenceAccountsMedicalNewspapersExperimentsThese DaysControlledAssociationPeersJournalHierarchyPromotingFringeBlogsDistortionMisinformationPseudoHealth Benefits Author:Daniel Levitin
“If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion.” IfsShouldOpinionBreakHellRightsCitizensGayTaxesBenefitsMarriedBillsEntitledGay MarriageAmerican CitizensBill Of RightsTax Breaks Author:Jeanne Phillips
“Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'” ThinkingNeedsI CanMy OwnOpinionBenefitsPsychologicalAnalysisIslands Author:Keith Olbermann
“If you look at Cuba what's the benefit in being in Cuba? Really? It's almost like being in prison. You can't think. You can't have your own opinions. You have no opportunity. You just gotta live life the way you were born into it.” IfsThinkingWayLooksOpportunityBornOpinionBenefitsPrisonLive LifeCuba Author:Pitbull
“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.” IfsHumansWellsStillsEvilOpportunityLosesRaceOpinionGenerationsExpressionBenefitsPerceptionErrorsImpressionHuman RacePeculiarCensorshipFree SpeechFreedom Of SpeechDeprivedPosterityDissentFreedom Of ExpressionCollisionRobbingExchangingFree ExpressionSilencingLimiting Freedom Of ExpressionFreedom Of Speech And Expression Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill