Opposition has hurt its thousands. Careless popularity has slain its ten thousands.
—John Newton
We are easily tired of a popular modish tune, but never of the voice of the wind in the woods.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
—Aldous Huxley
What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
—Albert Einstein