Quotes About Political Opinions

#1. Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Victor Hugo

#2. A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

A.P. Herbert

#3. I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

David Mamet

#4. Apart from his political opinions, I also took over my husband's opinion that he is a modern man, treating women like equals. Love makes you blind sometimes.

Lucie Novak

#5. People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Ben Hecht

#6. People living on others' goodwill cannot afford political opinions.

Thanhha Lai

#7. I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

Rose O'Neal Greenhow

#8. My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

Ron Paul

#10. I have no objection to the expression of political opinions in SF if they are an integral part of the story structure. I don't at all appreciate their intrusion for the purpose of converting a story into a political tract, because I consider that intellectually insulting.

Roger Zelazny

#11. If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

David Mamet

#12. It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast.

Elizabeth Hurley

#14. I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

Sean Connery

#15. Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

Fran Lebowitz

#16. On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

Barbra Streisand

#17. Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

Madeleine L'Engle

#18. My mum is incredibly leftwing, and my dad was quite rightwing - no surprise they didn't stay together - and so I had two very conflicting political opinions as a child, neither of which I was interested in taking any notice of, being a sort of little reprobate.

Nick Love

#19. The habit of considering a man's religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job is the modern form of persecution.

Bertrand Russell

#20. I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.

Alexander Mackenzie

#21. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you've spent years establishing on the world's dominant social network?

Al Franken

#22. If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#23. Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence.

Victor Hugo

#24. Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.

Criss Jami

#25. There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

Millicent Fawcett

#26. Only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions.

Ron Paul

#27. I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

Robert Barry

#28. Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.

Colin Quinn

#30. The reason he wouldn't be drawn into political or even theological debate was that he was indifferent to other people's opinions and felt no urge to engage with or oppose them.

Ian McEwan

#31. A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

Gilbert Gottfried

#32. I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him.

Peter Capaldi

#33. Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Jeanne Shaheen

#34. There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains unsure: an invitation refused or received determines it.

Marcel Proust

#35. Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their own. "Who's paying you?" was a retort that might follow any bout of enthusiasm, along with laughter - who would let themselves be bought?

Jennifer Egan

#36. I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage on a scale liable to provoke death threats or referrals to prosecutors for outraging public decency, so why worry?

Charles Stross

#37. Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure.

Jonathan Kozol

#38. In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex.

Catharine Beecher

#39. Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.

Adolf Hitler

#40. I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.

Jenna Bush

#41. This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

Shannen Doherty

#42. Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.

Antonio Gramsci

#43. I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion - the only sure foundation and safeguard of republican government - would be exposed by any further increase of the already overgrown influence of corporate authorities.

Martin Van Buren

#44. The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.

David Ricardo

#45. Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

Dilma Rousseff

#46. My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.

Thomas Jefferson

#47. All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

John Stuart Mill

#48. Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

Ben Affleck

#49. The general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied

John Stuart Mill

#50. The best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand to the other side.

Charles F. Glassman

#51. We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

Jens Stoltenberg

#52. ...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

Socrates

#53. You don't bring about major political change simply by changing people's minds. It's their interests that need to be assailed, not their opinions.

Terry Eagleton

#54. We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

Michel De Montaigne

#55. There is no more a 'political middle' than there is a family in America with 2.3 children. People with opinions take sides. Contrary to what you've heard, it's actually more important
to stand for something than it is for everybody to 'just get along'.

Ann Coulter

#56. A doctor does not ask about political views and opinions - that is how I understand my role.

Ewa Kopacz

#57. Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.

Lee Kuan Yew

#58. Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?

Jeffrey Rowland

#59. Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

James Madison

#60. In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles.

Joost Meerloo

#61. Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

Nicola Sturgeon