I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Popular and good and bad is not the same thing.
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.
People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
What is right is not always popular.
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.