More quotations tagged with “popularity”
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
—Harper Lee
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
—Clarence Darrow
However fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, thinks and lives fashionably; virtue and honor will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honor will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so.
—Robertson Davies
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
—Robert Frost
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
—Gore Vidal