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Tag Name "Popular" (1440)

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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
George Santayana
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Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.
Frans de Waal
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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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Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Wendell Phillips
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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 music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.
Conor Oberst
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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 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 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 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 culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.
Tipper Gore
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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 kids are just a powerful union of needy, insecure losers.
Jay Bell
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
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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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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Popular culture is seductive high culture is imperious.
Mason Cooley
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Victor Davis Hanson
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Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.
Steven Morrissey
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
Andrea Bocelli
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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 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.
L.A. Reid
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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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