Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • Think
  • High

• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opinion
  • Public Opinion

• A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Opinion

• I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Brain
  • Opinion
  • Speak

• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

  

  Origen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Living
  • Lie
  • Secrets

• If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Love
  • Opinion
  • Functional

• Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Black
  • Opinion
  • Heavy-Metal

• The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Relationship
  • Government

• They can say I have an opinion about something.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Opinion
  • Something
  • Say

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Family
  • Man

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Opinion
  • Learn
  • Doing

• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Good
  • Man
  • Opinion

• In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Opinion
  • Body
  • Gay

• In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Me
  • Problem
  • Opinion

• All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Opinion
  • Flying
  • Laugh

• Oscar: In a society where dissenting viewpoints are suppressed, those viewpoints are potent and dangerous... Where dissent is tolerated, it rapidly becomes quaint and is viewed as un-sophisticated; people merely amuse themselves with the expression of contrary opinion. (p. 41)

  

  Dave Sim
  • People
  • Society
  • Opinion

• I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Politician

• When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

  

  Frank Chodorov
  • People
  • Political

• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Kids
  • You

• Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • Art
  • Science
  • Purpose

• Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Opinion
  • Lie