The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!