Quotes about Opinion, page 6

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, while those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of...

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about opinion

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Quote by Jane Austen about opinion

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Quote by Jane Austen about opinion

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

Quote by Bette Davis about opinion