Popular Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of popular quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
– Edmund Burke

“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

“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.”
– John Lennon

“If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”
– Keith Richards

“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

“Everything popular is wrong.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”
– Mark Twain

“We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.”
– John Lennon

“After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.”
– Shirley Jones

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
– Jack Kerouac

“Isn’t it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?”
– Albert Einstein

“A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”
– James Madison

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.”
– Margaret Chase Smith

“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

“I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.”
– Michael Bloomberg

“There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.”
– Rudy Giuliani

“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.”
– Arnold H. Glasow

“Artist – musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.”
– Billy Joel

“This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Look, I’m not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I’m willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.”
– Howard Dean

“Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani – even if it’s a fake. I like the fact that I’m so popular around the world.”
– Giorgio Armani

“I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They’re incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.”
– Bobby Flay

“Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.”
– Louis C. K.

“Freedom of expression – in particular, freedom of the press – guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.”
– Corazon Aquino

“What’s right isn’t always popular. What’s popular isn’t always right.”
– Howard Cosell

“History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.”
– Ken Burns

“Contrary to popular opinion, things don’t go stale particularly fast in the art world.”
– Jerry Saltz

“The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.”
– Agatha Christie

“Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers’ songs and so forth.”
– Noam Chomsky

“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”
– William Lloyd Garrison

“The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
– Carl Bernstein

“I wasn’t the most popular girl in school by any means.”
– Cindy Crawford

“Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.”
– Brian Eno

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