A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

quote by Adlai Stevenson
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I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am.

quote by Robert Barnes
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

quote by Orson Welles
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What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

quote by Howard Cosell
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Popularity. It is glory's small change.

quote by Victor Hugo
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

quote by Fran Drescher
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Art has never been a popularity contest.

quote by James Levine
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

William Hazlitt in Pleasure of Hating
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

quote by Abraham Lincoln
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First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

quote by Konrad Adenauer
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

quote by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

quote by Paul Robeson
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

quote by Karl Kraus
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Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

quote by William Devane
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Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

quote by Li Peng
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

quote by Fran Lebowitz
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

quote by Jeanette Winterson
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Popular..

Many teenagers think
That being popular should be with the way you dress
The way you walk
The way you attract the boys
And the way you make the noise
Many teenagers think
That being popular is by the way you treat the others with full disrepute
Or by being very thin and cute
Many teenagers think
That being popular is all about the way you talk about the others
Or if you’re wearing a silky top or shoes made out of leather
Many teenagers think
That being popular is by despising the quiet ones and making fun of the weird
And also to show that they can never be scared or feared
Many teenagers think
That being popular is by showing of your new jeans and vest
And many teenagers think
That being popular is a way to prove that you are the finest and best.

poem by Marria Attar
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Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

quote by Heinrich Mann
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson in Speech in Detroit, October 7, 1952
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