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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.

William Ralph Inge, 1920
English author & Anglican prelate (1860 - 1954)

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix"

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Wilson Mizner
US screenwriter (1876 - 1933)

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

James A. Garfield, July 12, 1880
US general & politician (1831 - 1881)

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Hermione Gingold

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall

Oliver Herford

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B.C.
Greek Athenian comic dramatist (450 BC - 388 BC)

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

Aristotle, Rhetoric
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky
US activist & linguist (1928 - )

The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 - 1804)

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Wilson Mizner
US screenwriter (1876 - 1933)

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment
US science fiction novelist (1920 - 1986)

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