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Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.
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A comment on an unlined sheet of note paper in Twain's papers.

 

Mark Twain

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War is not popular. It may seem popular in the short run, when there appears to be an immediate victory and everyone is gloating but war is not popular.War is not popular. People get killed, and body bags end up coming back. War is very unpopular, and it is not the politically smart thing to do.

 

Ron Paul

 

It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.

 

Joan Robinson

 

My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent ad almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."

 

Kim Il-sung

 

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day. A matter of fact, my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.

 

Glenn Gould