“Opinions need a willing ear.”

“The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.”

“The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.”

“I need an easy friend
I do, with an ear to lend.”

“It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.”

“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”

“Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.”

“We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.”

“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”

“Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak and willing followers of some tyrant. Variety of opinion is necessary for objective knowledge. And a method that encourages variety is also the only method that is comparable with a humanitarian outlook.”