"It is always brave to say what everyone thinks."

Duhamel, George on opinions   

"Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others."

Dyer, Wayne on opinions
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"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

Edwards, Tryon on opinions
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"No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on opinions   

"There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued."

Huxley, Thomas H. on opinions
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"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party."

Keats, John on opinions   

"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind."

Keynes, John Maynard on opinions   

"He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave."

Klopstock on opinions   

"False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing."

Maistre, Joseph De on opinions   

"I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on opinions   

"The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it."

Platiere, Jeane on opinions   

"A great deal of laziness of mind is called liberty of opinion."

Unknown, Source on opinions   

"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

Jordan, June on feminism
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"anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country."

Jordan, June on elections   

"All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake."

Jordan, June on intervention   

"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children."

Jordan, June on language   

"The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se."

Jordan, June on manners
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"Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do."

Jordan, June on autonomy   

"If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic."

Jordan, June on sex   

"Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you."

Jordan, June on trouble   

"As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America."

Jordan, June on words
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"Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways."

Jordan, June on children   

"To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty."

Jordan, June on children   

"Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body."

Pavese, Cesare on hatred   

"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

Pavese, Cesare on infatuation
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"Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow."

Pavese, Cesare on literature
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"A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be."

Pavese, Cesare on loneliness
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"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."

Pavese, Cesare on pain
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"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world."

Pavese, Cesare on price   

"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference."

Pavese, Cesare on behavior   

"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."

Pavese, Cesare on sin   

"To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on suffering
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"Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time -- is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next."

Pavese, Cesare on suffering   

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

Bacon, Francis on beauty
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"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."

Bancroft, George on beauty
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"I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."

Banks, Tyra on beauty
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"Exuberance is beauty."

Blake, William on beauty
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"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."

Breton, Andre on beauty
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"Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can."

Brown, Helen Gurley on beauty
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"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal."

Dante Alighieri on beauty
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