Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.
When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.
People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.
As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.
People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.