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"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"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
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"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
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right." »Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
Expediency asks the question - is it political?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right." »Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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""Whats right isn't always popular and whats popular isn't always right."" »Tom Zegan
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"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different." »Tony Bennet
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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." »Wilson Mizner
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"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope." »Arnold Glasgow
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"popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world." »Thomas Carlyle
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"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
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"It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value." »Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
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"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy." »William Ralph Inge, 1920
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"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime." »Elizabeth II
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"The most popular labor-saving device is still money." »Phyllis George
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"In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved." »Margaret Fuller
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"I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him." »Goethe
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks." »Alistair Cooke
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"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
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"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences." »Aristotle
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"popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth." »John Stuart Mill
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"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." »Aristophanes
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"Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns." »Hermione Gingold
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"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." »Oscar Wilde
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"As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." »Oscar Wilde
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"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." »Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B.C.
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"Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall" »Oliver Herford
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"The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society." »Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
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