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“GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels.”

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting.”

Ifs Needs Should Made Fighting Force Numbers Opinion Support Stronger Determine Counting Conflicting Opinions

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.”

Feelings Justice Opinion Support Theory Tendencies Outcomes Fairness Primacy

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.”

“The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.”

Real Happens Process Decision Opinion Support Meetings Developing Gathering Making Decisions

Author:Bill Vaughan

“We show our support and love the troops, whatever our opinion.”

Shows Opinion Support And Love Troops Support And Love

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.”

Believe Shows Opinion Support Study Being True

Author:David J. Lieberman

“We do the same thing in our own lives, embracing information that supports what we already prefer or vindicates choices we previously made.After all, it feels better to justify our opinions rather than challenge them, to contemplate only the pros and relegate the cons to the back of our minds. However, if we want to make the most of choice, we have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable. The question is, if we are willing, how exactly do we go about fortifying ourselves against these biases?”

Ifs Want Feels Mind Made Choices Challenges Opinion Support Information Willing Uncomfortable Justify Contemplating Feel Better

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.”

People Ifs Looks Self Opinion Support Issues Republican Feminist Public Opinion Polls Opinion Polls

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. As a result of expressing my opinion on this subject, I have been called a chiropractic heretic.”

Source: Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide

“A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ... First, there are those judgments whose verification has simply dropped out of memory. ... The second type of unreasoned judgments we hold is the opinions we adopt from others ... The third class of judgments in Professor Hibben's list comprises those which have subconscious origin. The material that furnishes their support does not reach the focal point of consciousness, but psychology insists upon its existence.”

“I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations and the profit motive - those two factors have, in my opinion, brought us to the point where almost nothing can stop the utter destruction of the environment and all our earthly life-support systems.”

Thinking Two Nations Opinion Support Environment Planets Destruction Profit Boundaries Factors Motive Cursed Support Systems Profit Motive

Author:George Carlin

“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.”

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon

“We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.”

Source: A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England

“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.”

Humans Understanding Opinion Support Draws All Things Agree Adopted

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon

“In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.”

Thinking Men Needs Wells Doe Soul Government Force Social Answers Effort Opinion Support Stronger Raises Absence Well Being Accustomed Counting Vigilant

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.”

Thinking Reason Home Opinion Support Subjects Add Labour Spares Remarks Sluggish

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.”

People Strong President Opinion Support Alive Nostalgia Eras Communist Soviet Elites Not Interested Remnants

Author:Vladislav Surkov

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