“Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.”
“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.”
“The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits.”
“Opinion, O disciples, is a disease; opinion is a tumour; opinion is a sore. He who has overcome all opinion, O disciples, is called a saint, one who knows.”
“Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.”
“Drop dead-but first get permit”