Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or form:
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (19151980)
“[One cannot express lack of knowledge in affirmative language.] This idea is more firmly grasped in the form of interrogation: What do I know?Mthe words I bear as a motto, inscribed over a pair of scales.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)