Monday, April 6, 2009

Quote - Popularity and Fashion

"The great guide of the world is fashion and its god is respectability--two phantoms at which brave men laugh! How many of you look around on society to know what to do; you watch the general current and then float upon it; you study the popular breeze and shift your sails to suit it. True men do not so! You ask--Is it fashionable? If it be fashionable, it must be done. Fashion is the law of multitudes, but it is nothing more than the common consent of fools."

Charles Spurgeon, from the sermon “Decision - Illustrated by the Case of Joshua”, delivered on April 18th, 1875.

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