“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.” ThinkingForceForgetOpinionIssuesViolenceWorstPaidContraryNakedFactorsCynicismIdealismWishful ThinkingReferee Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsHas BeensImportantStatesReasonSeemsPoliticsUnitedLeaderOpinionMillionsUnited StatesMediaPolicyProveMouthsImportancePaidAffairAthleteIgnorantTreatedRationalDeclineMistakenEntertainersRational ThinkingProfessional AthleteForeign AffairsIdolizedDomestic Policy Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He's a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive.” ShouldRunningGuyOpinionGonePositionFootballHighestPaidLeagueProductiveRushingRunning Back Author:Emmitt Smith
“Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.” IfsSeemsCommonAttitudeOpinionClaimsPaidManagementSellsPropertyFinanceCorporatePhrasesOwnersInvestorsSuperintendents Author:Benjamin Graham
“The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.” GivingMadeStatesPoliticalGivenOpinionReturnPoliticianFunctionPaidSoldierPublic OpinionProvisionHysteriaCharlatans Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926 Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
“When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.” HandsGivenOpinionPaidNewspapersFenceScratchesColumnsChins Author:Carl Hiaasen
“It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingShouldWritingMindEndsFactsProblemMightLeftAbilityOpinionEventsCrySolutionsPaidSolveBunchPrintCommentBlastClutterTick Author:Malcolm Forbes
“As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property. A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished.” IfsShouldHandsWould BeIndividualOpinionLandBuildingTaxesMassPaidTradeLaysPropertyRaisedIncomeConsumersProportionEtcDaringRevenueMachineryAristocracyIncome TaxAssessmentRailroadsCanalsProperty Taxes Author:John Bright
“Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.” MenHumansSeemsNamesOpinionGoodnessAll ThingsPerfectionPaidOriginalsMethodAncientHonourReverenceReceivingCeremony Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays