| "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." »James Madison |
| "Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." »Wilson Mizner |
| "Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope." »Arnold Glasgow |
| "In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different." »Tony Bennet |
| "Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy." »Noam Chomsky |
| "It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime." »Elizabeth II |
| "The most popular labor-saving device is still money." »Phyllis George |
| "Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved." »Margaret Fuller |
| "Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks." »Alistair Cooke |
| "I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts." »Bethania McKenstry |
| "popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth." »John Stuart Mill |
| "It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences." »Aristotle |
| "You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." »Aristophanes |
| "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." »W. H. Auden |
| "Grace Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude." »Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| "All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." »Noam Chomsky |
| "If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, 'Well, technically that's illegal.' It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "My father said, 'Politics asks the question Is it expedient Vanity asks Is it popular But conscience asks Is it right'" »Dexter Scott King |
| "The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart." »Richard Adams |
| "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." »Frank Herbert |
| "The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it." »Will Rogers |
| "My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*." »Theodore Hesburgh |
| "Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained." »James Abram Garfield |
| "Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just." »Rose Elizabeth Bird |
| "popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "The salvation of the lost is not best accomplished by great popular campaigns, conducted by a small minority of specialists in public evangelism, but by the godly, honest witness of believers individually. It is pure irresponsibility to leave the evangelization of the lost to the 'experts,' as many are doing today. God would have every believer do his part to win the lost to Christ by prayer, personal witness and sincere godliness." »Cornelius Stam |
| "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." »Hubert Humphrey |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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