Quotes of: Popular-opinion Keyword

Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.

Love

Jeffrey Goines: There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion.

Twelve Monkeys

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

William Lloyd Garrison

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Marco Rubio

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

Gary Coleman

I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti-Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am w...

Popular Opinion & Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria 1933-45

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

Gore Vidal

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

Jerry Saltz

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the d...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

Fran Lebowitz

We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.

Patti Stanger

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Jack Kerouac

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I ...

Sir Mix-a-Lot

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Robert Plant

A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it would be precisely the extreme instability of the...

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

I'm not just the sum of how I look although that seems to be a popular opinion, and it infuriates me.

Lovestruck

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Mary Wollstonecraft

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Bryant H. McGill