A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
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A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
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