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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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.
quote by William Lamb Melbourne
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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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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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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.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
quote by Geraldo Rivera
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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
quote by Albert Einstein
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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
quote by Robert Hughes
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
quote by Matthew Arnold
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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.
quote by Emma Goldman
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So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
quote by Ruth Gordon
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
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There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
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With A Bluntness That Hits
Who is it that travels on the path of truth,
Ultimately finding they are alone.
And unpopular?
Who is it that reveals they speak without deceit,
And become greeted by opposition...
From many they meet.
People today,
Are addicted to the sweet taste of delusion.
Anyone confusing their needs for a fix...
With a bluntness that hits,
Is considered a misfit!
Who is it that travels on the path of truth,
Ultimately finding they are alone.
And unpopular?
Who is it that reveals they speak without deceit,
And become greeted by opposition...
From many they meet.
In times when people are seeking,
More feeding of their fantasies
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.
quote by Konrad Adenauer
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Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
quote by Edith Sitwell
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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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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
quote by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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