Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. - Thomas Carlyle

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle

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I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats

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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. – Gerald Early

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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm

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I wouldnt say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. – Bette Midler

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Living in memories is an empty gesture. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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