Samuel Butler Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Errors, Devil

• He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

  Samuel Butler

  Agreement, Liberty, Opinion

  'Hudibras' pt. 3 (1680), canto 3, l. 547

• The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

  Samuel Butler

  Character, Wish, Opinion

  1872 Erewhon.

• The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

  Samuel Butler

  Meat, Principles, Public Opinion

  'Notebooks' (1912) ch. 17

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