A Quote by Adlai Stevenson I

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Adlai Stevenson I

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Adlai Stevenson I
American - Politician
October 23, 1835 - June 14, 1914

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do.

Gore Vidal

Trump might become deeply unpopular in the way that I, with some people, am deeply unpopular, but that doesn't mean that we don't get things done. You can be unpopular and successful.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Professors who hold unpopular positions or state inconvenient facts are now considered psychologically toxic.

Amy Wax

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.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.

Charles Krauthammer

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

Chuck Palahniuk

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

Alice Walker

It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.

David Cameron

Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.

Najib Razak

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

John Sherman

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

Steven Brust

When I took over in 2000, Odisha was in a terrible financial state due to various policies, some of them unpopular.

Naveen Patnaik

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

John Galsworthy

There's potential for it being soon. The reality is that there are only 'X' positions available, so it's a matter of luck or timing. They are people positions, and Kim is incredibly qualified.

Jamie McCourt

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