Home / Topics / Opinion Quotes

Opinion Quotes

Browse 6387 quotes about Opinion.

Opinion Quotes

“I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.”

Opinion Presses Critics Despise

Author:Claude Monet

“We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.”

Way Doe Matter States Individual Social Opinion Democracy Feet Crime Presses Vices Tricks One Way Live By Sooner Or Later Ridicule Public Opinion Secrecy Dodge

Author:Joseph Pulitzer

“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'.”

“Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.”

Opinion Speech Slavery Presses Tolerate Freedom Of Speech Freedom Of The Press Limiting Freedom Of Expression Independent Judiciary

Book:The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

Source: The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it

“the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.”

Opinion Media Presses Newspapers Journalism Officials Censorship Free Speech Public Opinion Restriction

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.”

“If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.”

Source: ON READING: Le plaisir de lire

“In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.”

Long Church Opinion Struggle Presses Fierce Martyr Struggle For Freedom

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

“Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.”

Men Secret Opinion Glory Presses Simplicity

Author:Francis Bacon

“...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.”

“As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.”

People Men Opinion Rich Presses Newspapers Rich Man

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?”

Men Should Believe Ideas Government Opinion Speech Weapons Gun Presses Opposition Freedom Of Speech Printing Freedom Of The Press Pernicious Printing Press Lethal Weapon

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.”

Trying Sometimes Form Opinion News Presses

Author:George W. Bush

“We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?”

Ifs World Giving Firsts War Home America Poor Opinion Democracy Broken Safe Speech Independent Presses Free Speech Brutal Uniforms Assembly Gangsters Outraged Broken Up Free Press Overbearing

Author:Emma Goldman