Quotes about Popular
the Platonized eschatology so popular over many centuries (how will my soul get to heaven?) has played host to a moralized anthropology (what's to be done about my sin?), generating a quasi-pagan soteriology (God killed Jesus instead of punishing me).
— NT Wright
The 'popular Paul' has all too often been addressing sixteenth-century questions in a nineteenth-century tone of voice
— NT Wright
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
— Oscar Wilde
A James Bond film can be artistically fulfilling. Absolutely it can. It can be complex, and it can be interesting. I consider Bond movies to be an extension of popular theatre, a kind of modern mythology. You see the same sort of action in 'Punch and Judy' or in the folk theatre of various cultures, like 'Grand Guignol.'
— Christoph Waltz
Contrary to popular belief, love is actually a reflection of how much we 'honor' another person—for at its core genuine love is a decision, not a feeling.
— Philip Yancey
To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
— Ian Mckellen
A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.
— Thomas a Kempis
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both
— James Madison
The answer of Solon on the question, 'Which is the most perfect popular govemment,' has never been exceeded by any man since his time, as containing a maxim of political morality, 'That,' says he, 'where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.
— Thomas Paine
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
— Oscar Wilde
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
— Oscar Wilde