英语格言警句_Popularity_(P13)

An error does not bee truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth bee error because nobody sees it.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Herbert B. Swope

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

- Mark Twain

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

- George Santayana

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 Chase Smith

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.

- David Hume

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

- Margaret Fuller