“But what good is the popular opinion, if the lot of us just process like minions?” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Most conspiracy theories seem psychotic to the nature of politics because in essence they go against popular opinion. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values.… — James Salter Copy Share Image
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
“Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
Everybody in Texas would tell me that they thought I was nuts trying to start Southwest Airlines. There probably weren't 10 people… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
“Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Above all, it was the style of Quakerism I was brought up with - an aggressive contempt for popular opinion. The assumption… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax… — Frank Howard Clark Copy Share Image
“One can only return to the fact that even the most ordinary, good-hearted, intelligent people are literally prone to believing the most… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, the most important characteristic of a godly mother is not her relationship with her children. It is her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“He felt something dark and leering in the manner with which people spoke of Prescott's genius; as if they were not doing… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image