Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people and mention how important it is that compassion is the key that it's the sine-qua-non of religion people look kind of balked and stubborn sometimes as much to say what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

To become a popular religion it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

I never saw heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution.

We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions until we give it a final try the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.

My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT so even if I want to take the LSAT again I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows maybe with my popularity I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

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

The popular and one may say naive idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing for the most part.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

For instance I'm always fascinated to see whether given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad ' when it's popular and you're the lead you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture including TV magazines movies and video games.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation popular hits came out of shows and movies.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity but from their point of view show business was no way to make a living.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.