Best Popular Quotations
1789 Popular quotes by 1400 unique authors
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When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see…
— Kathy Griffin
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The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
— Robertson Davies
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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
— Albert Einstein
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Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a…
— Robert Orben
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
— Margaret Mead
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I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.
— Suzanne Vega
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The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular…
— James F. Cooper
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern…
— George F. Kennan
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Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.
— Vladimir Lenin
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
— Joseph Addison
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[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
— George Washington
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It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
— Richard Henry Lee
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[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by…
— Algernon Sidney
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Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
— Frank Chodorov
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the…
— Oscar Wilde
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it…
— G. H. Hardy
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to…
— Charles Lyell
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It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and…
— Albert Einstein
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,…
— Humphry Davy
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Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and…
— Vladimir Lenin
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