Quotes on opinions

history of this quote “We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.” by John Stuart Mill

Topics: endeavoring, false, history

history of this quote “An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer.” by John Stuart Mill

Topics: corner, dealers, history

history of this quote “If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” by John Stuart Mill

Topics: contrary, history, mankind

“An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer.”

Topics: corner, dealers, history

“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.”

Topics: endeavoring, false, history

“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

Topics: contrary, history, mankind

I Don’t Give Advice; I Give Opinions

Topics: advice, forgive, opinions

“Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both i…” – J.K. Rowling

Topics: almost, capable, humble

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” – Pablo Coelho

Topics: changed, coelho, example

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

Henry David Thoreau

Topics: compared, history, opinions

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