Popularity Seeking Quotes

We corrupt the word of truth, and mix ... our doctrine with what is common and cheap... in order to turn the adulteration to our profit, and accommodate ourselves to those who meet us, and curry favor with everyone, becoming ventriloquists and chatterers, who serve their own pleasures by words uttered from the earth, and sinking into the earth, and, to gain the special good will of the multitude

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

When we were younger, playing a bar or a club, we did what we did to get as many people to like what we were doing. I wanted the person in the back of the room to like it as much as the ones in the front. That's how I've always looked at it.

Normally, politicians lie because they want to persuade us of the truth of what they are saying. A candidate for Congress will claim that he earned a medal of honor when he did not, so that we will love and revere him.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

It’s not hard to be popular if you take a poll to find out what it means to be popular.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.