Forming

Famous quotes containing the word forming:

“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—moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former—but no opinion.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

“Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)