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“With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.”

Ifs Social Opinion Taken Paper Advantage Roots Regard Aim Corruption Wide Improvement Excess Desirable Banking Public Opinion Emissions Transactions Suppression Too Deep Partiality

Author:James Madison

“Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.”

Memories Moral Opinion Honor Fit Intelligent Regard Slave Identical Deceased Pharisees

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Order Powerful Opinion Expression Regard Ancient Aids Reform Rely Public Opinion Obsolete Free Man Pernicious

Book:Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)

Source: Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)

“You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.”

Believe Universe Differences Opinion Creation Eternity Regard Notes Philosopher Portions Differences Of Opinion

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.”

“Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions”

Source: An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays

“I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.”

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Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.”

Years Looks Age Faces Young Passion Forget Opinion Written Please Regard Dresses Decay Wrinkles Coquette

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself.”

People Men World Doe Different Spiritual Form Life Is Night Moral Opinion Divine Regard Spiritual Life Inward Good Night Diving Moral Life

Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

“I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.”

Important Government Opinion Issues Direct Regard Spending Campaigns Contribution Reduction Important Issues Federal Spending

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. That which they have said in regard to the intellectual faculties applies equally to the moral faculties. There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all the real progress in perfection.”

Said Real Soul Culture Moral Opinion Progress Depends Capable Intellectual Perfection Regard Depth Notion Philosopher Faculty Instruction Spontaneous Pupils Transmit

Author:Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

“Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.”

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather, if they realize that they have held a false belief, they should thank those have shown them the truth; and if their opinion stands firm that the earth doesn't move, they will have reason to boast than be angered.”

Ifs Should Reason Earth Moving Belief Realizing Opinion Lovers Regard Philosopher Being True Firm Boast Irritated Stand Firm

Author:Galileo Galilei

“I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.”

Firsts Two Opinion Principles Regard Independent

Author:Albert Einstein

“Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right circumstances. This is in essence a judgment call, since what is possible and what is not cannot be objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the reader.”

Belief Fiction Known Opinion Fantasy Impossible Reader Circumstances Judgment Essence Regard Science Fiction Subjective

Book:Pandemonium

Source: Pandemonium