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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Speech Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 march 1954) -
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
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It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
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My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
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President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010.
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The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.
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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
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What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
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When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
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