Popular Quotes

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. (Aristotle)
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. View quote
James A. Garfield
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. View quote
Oliver Herford
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? View quote
Irwin Shaw
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. View quote
Aristophanes
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! ... Current appreciation of my work is a bit "highbrow", I've always considered myself a popular artist. View quote
Maxfield Parrish
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. View quote
Jack Kerouac
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. (Edmund Burke)
And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God. View quote
Norman Mailer
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. View quote
Wilson Mizner
As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. View quote
Oscar Wilde
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? View quote
William Cowper
Kings govern by means of popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. View quote
Charles James Fox
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. View quote
Erich Fromm
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
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)
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. View quote
Franklin Pierce
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. View quote
Bing Crosby
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. View quote
Ludwig Quidde