popularity quotes

David Hume: 

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.

George Santayana: 

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

Herbert B. Swope: 

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

Margaret Chase Smith: 

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Margaret Fuller: 
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Mark Twain: 

Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.