P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.”
Source: Essays in the Public Philosophy
“Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.”
“Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.”
“Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.”
“Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.”
“Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.”
Source: Something Like Winter (m/m romance)
“Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.”
Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution
“Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.”
“Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.”
“Popular media uses the depersonalized ‘Unidentified Black Suspect’ as little more than a plot device in its parable of implicit racism- while ignoring the fact that these are people, not plot devices, and that black lives are not ours to own, and the story of black culture is not one white people get to define and rewrite according to what generates clicks and viewership.”
“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.”
Source: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“Popular morality blames victims for going into debt – not only individuals, but also national governments. The trick in this ideological war is to convince debtors to imagine that general prosperity depends on paying bankers and making bondholders rich – a veritable Stockholm Syndrome in which debtors identify with their financial captors.”
Source: Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
“Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.”
“Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.”
“Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.”
“Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.”
“Popular music is a microcosm of the culture, Eliza. It reflects the mentality of the population.”
“Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.”
“Popular music is like a big party, and it’s a thrill sneaking in rather than being invited. Every once in a while, a guy with his shirt on inside out, wearing lipstick and a pillbox hat gets a chance to speak.”
“Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.”
“Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.”
“Popular music of the last 50 years has failed to keep in step with advances in musical theater, namely Stephen Sondheim. But the two have grown apart so that popular music is based more than ever on a rhythmic grid that is irrelevant in musical theater. In popular music, words matter less and less. Especially now that it's so international, the fewer words the better. While theater music becomes more and more confined to a few blocks in midtown.”
“Popular music sucks so bad right now.”
“Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!”
“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.”
“Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of people who are somewhat cut off from the life of the Church and who have no special understanding of faith. All that is required is to 'illuminate' these actions and 'purify' this tradition so that it may become part of the life of the Church today.”
Source: Questions and Answers
“Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.”
Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four
“Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.”
“Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.”
“Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.”
“Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both of believers and of the rest of us. Look at the role of religion in Republican presidential primaries if you need any confirmation of this last statement.”
“Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.”
“Popular-science news about quantum mechanics is to me as baffling as it is frustrating. Hand me an equation, and I can deal with it. But if you tell me that quantum mechanics allows one to separate a cat from its grin or that an experiment shows "an irreconcilable mismatch between the friends and the Wigners," I'll back out of the room quietly before anyone demands I explain this mess. I have suffered through countless well-intended introductions to quantum mechanics featuring quantum shoes, quantum coins, quantum boxes, and entire zoos of quantum animals that went in and out of those boxes. If you actually understand those explanations, I salute you, because if I hadn't known already how quantum mechanics works, I still wouldn't know.”
Source: Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
“Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.”
“Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.”
Source: Who Rules the World?
“Popular success is a wonderful gift if it happens, but like money, it's not the motivation. The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.”
“Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.”
Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil
“Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.”
“Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests - sometimes the very people doing the protesting have NO IDEA what they are talking about.”
“Popular women use positive, optimistic language in their online profiles, not buzzwords like "future thinker". Here are the ten most often used words I found: easy-going, love, laugh, laid-back, optimistic, outgoing, fun, down-to-earth, pleasure, adventure.”
“Popular, You're gonna be Popular! I'll teach you the proper ploys when you talk to boys! Little ways to flirt and flounce! I'll show you what shoes to wear, how to fix your hair, everything that really counts, to be POPULAR!!”
Source: Wicked: the Grimmerie
“Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.”
“Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.”
“Popularity at the box office did not translate into support from [director John Sturges'] peers in the Academy. In February, when Oscar nominations were announced, The Great Escape had to make do with one, for [Ferris] Webster’s editing. Paramount’s Hud and UA’s Tom Jones, which would bring Tony Richardson the best-director Oscar, dominated the field. Sturges’s rightful place in the best-picture category was taken by 20th Century Fox’s Cleopatra, a lavish flop.”
Source: Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges
“Popularity can be a real headache.”
Source: Rosebush
“Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here.”
“Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.”
Source: Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims