#popular

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consume #culture #decisions #feel #helpless

I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

#fun #hope #i #knew #know

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#being #ladder #popular #very

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

— Robert A. Dahl

#electoral #popular #proportion #require #votes

If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer? ↗

— Ace Frehley

#i #me #popular #replace #tommy

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity. ↗

— Walt Disney

#his #human #laugh #mickey #mickey mouse

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#alcoholism #business #disease #egotism #executives

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#cast #distress #emotions #goddess #great

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#anything #be patient #become #even #fathers

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#american music #american television #been #clothes #culture