Quotes Tagged "popular"

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.

We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

Either we die as men, or live as legends.

No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can't help but hurt too.

Happiness depends not on things around me, but on my attitude.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and compassion.

Wherever you may go; Life is a beautiful thing. Life is like a passing season. It comes and go. Whatever may come, it's better to enjoy the changing seasons.

Today, how can I tackle the fact that I want to be “one of the above”, meaning, I want t be amazingly successful in my field of interest. Simply being willing to be “none of the above”, meaning not to be like everyone else who is already popular, then the top place belong to me and only me.

I hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes.

The man or woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the bowed frame of years, you will always see the dear face and feel the warm heart union of your eternal love.

The Truth is harsh, but it will take you out of trash.

It is strange to both fit in everywhere and belong nowhere, to never feel completely at home outside of your own skin

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.