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Popularity is not leadership.

Richard Marcinko

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Unknown

Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Greeley

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Aldous Huxley

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Philip Larkin

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

Max Beerbohm

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

Kin Hubbard

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Edmund Burke

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

Vanna Bonta

War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

Chaz Bufe

Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

John Arbuthnot Fisher

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

Orson Welles

For the first time in history, hits and niches are on equal economic footing, both just entries in a database called up on demand, both equally worthy of being carried. Suddenly, popularity no longer has a monopoly on profitability.

Chris Anderson

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

Saul Bellow