In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.
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.
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.
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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