The difference between an opinion and an incitement


"Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker’s enthusiasm for the result."

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
US Supreme Court Justice, also known as "The Great Dissenter"



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