 To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
– Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) |
Tag Archives: opinion
Edmund Burke – Responsibility of a representative
 Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
– Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
Susan Cain – The opinion of the most talkative person
 If you can think of meetings you’ve attended, you can probably recall a time – plenty of times – when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all.
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Michel de Montaigne – Care not what I am in the opinion of others
 I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
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James Harvey Robinson – Self-esteem and our beliefs
| We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.
– James Harvey Robinson (1863-1936) |
