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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. – Walter Benjamin

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Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin

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Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin

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Public opinion is a second conscience. – William R. Alger

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To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile. – George Earle Buckle

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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods – Hannah Arendt

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