William Hazlitt Quotes

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

William Hazlitt

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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • You
  • Never
  • Location

• I would like to have my gun for protection.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Like
  • Gun
  • Protection

• For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Violence
  • Racism
  • Awareness

• I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • People
  • Political
  • Party

• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • World
  • Want
  • I Can

• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Experience
  • Society
  • Fear

• The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Effort
  • View

• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Real
  • Strange
  • Be Real

• I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Universe
  • End
  • Looking

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• I say this all the time, but my hijab, it really is my crown, and it's something that I bring to the table. It's something that makes me unique. It shows the world who I truly am.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • World
  • Unique

• The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Theater

• The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Cooperation

• A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Good
  • Impression
  • Elements

• I'm a big Sarah Michelle Gellar [Buffy the Vampire Slayer] fan. Huge. I love her. She's gorgeous. I see her Maybelline ads, and I'm like, 'How can she be that pretty?'

  

  Kirsten Storms
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Vampire

• In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the 'cancer' that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.

  

  Maurice Allais
  • Money
  • Cancer

• Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Team
  • Here
  • Members

• We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Opinion
  • Slave
  • Cooperation