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Tag Name "Popular" (1435)

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Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
George Bernard Shaw
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Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
George Will
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Popular journalists resort to the name Nixon to galvanize feelings that remain at rest even when the name Stalin is mentioned.
Emmett Tyrrell
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Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.
Elisabeth Marbury
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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.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.
Tipper Gore
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
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Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.
Noam Chomsky
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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of
Northrop Frye
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Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
Bell Hooks
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Popular glory is a perfect coquette her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
James Wolcott
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Popular culture is seductive high culture is imperious.
Mason Cooley
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Popular kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.
Jay Bell
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Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.
Melissa Harris-Perry
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Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.
Danny Glover
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill
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Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.
Camille Desmoulins
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Popular culture does a lot to shape attitudes. You can't compare different communities to each other, but in my lifetime the gay and lesbian community has become much more mainstream in society. I would venture to say it's in part because people began to feel more comfortable when they saw that group on TV.
Jay Ruderman
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Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.
Seth Godin
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Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.
Judith Butler
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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.
Amy Webb
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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.
Allen W. Wood
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