My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

Ashleigh Brilliant (b. 1933) is best known for his wry, aphoristic one-liners—often printed on postcards and collected in books—crafted in the late 20th century as satirical “Pot-Shots.” The quip fits his characteristic persona: a voice that mimics confident self-help or philosophical certainty while undercutting it with comic self-contradiction. Rather than arising from a single speech or political moment, the line reads as a deliberately portable epigram aimed at everyday argument, ego, and the way people rationalize changing positions without conceding error.

The joke hinges on a logical impossibility presented as unwavering confidence: if one’s opinions change, one might expect one’s sense of being “right” to change too. Instead, the speaker insists that correctness is an identity, not a conclusion. Brilliant satirizes the human tendency to treat beliefs as accessories that can be swapped out while preserving self-justification and moral superiority. The line also skewers rhetorical flexibility—how people revise views in response to new circumstances yet narrate the shift as consistent wisdom rather than correction. Its bite comes from exposing ego’s need to win even when it has moved the goalposts.