“Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.”
Saul Bellow
“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become”
Mark Twain
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
Jack Kerouac
“Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senat.”
Orson Welles
“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.”
Immanuel Kant
“You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.”
Aristophanes
“Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right”
