Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Minister: Public opinion has a way of changing.
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.
Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.
I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.
If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.
I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.
The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that...
I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.
