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"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?"
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"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."
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"The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead."
"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."
"Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion."
"I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!"
"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."
"You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights."
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
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