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

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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.
Albert Ellis

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Neal Boortz

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.
Bill Delahunt

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Fran Lebowitz

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith Sitwell

I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
Benjamin F. Wade

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Jeanette Winterson

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.
Edward Said

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.
Robert Barnes

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.
Donna Shalala

I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.
George Woodcock

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

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.
William Lamb Melbourne

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson