Popular Quotes

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

Sometimes the threat to popular government comes from political interests, sometimes from economic interests, sometimes we have to beat off all of them together.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and 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 he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.

Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable.

Money's Too Tight to Mention' was about as big an anti-Thatcherite message as you can get in pop music. There was a vast swath of the British media at that time that were rabid Thatcherites; do you think they are going to take kindly to me? Then I got hit by the left, because we were too popular.

She may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile... what else matters?

I've been popular and unpopular, successful and unsuccessful, loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

We're more popular than Jesus now.... Jesus was alright but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

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.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

All propaganda must be so popular... that even the most stupid...will understand it.