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"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
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"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."
"As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions."
"Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by circumstance and bitterness and excitement. However, rarely do we find the case in which any of these are dictated by reason in the pure state: it is by this we see that at the core of a number of false opinions lies not always misinformation but quite often some issue of the human self."
"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
"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."
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"I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected."
"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
"The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me."
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