My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Tags: politics freedom society safety popularity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Tags: language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Tags: knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Tags: ignorance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Tags: language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Tags: knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. More about this quote Tags: ignorance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “popularity” 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. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: curiosity popularity confusione masterpiece Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all. —Gerald W. Johnson More about this quote Tags: heroism myth popularity hero worship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. —Harper Lee More about this quote Tags: democracy conscience popularity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. —Clarence Darrow More about this quote Tags: experience popularity courage bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email However fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, thinks and lives fashionably; virtue and honor will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honor will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: love virtue future knowledge world popularity despair sacrifice present journalism honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: curiosity popularity confusione masterpiece Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all. —Gerald W. Johnson More about this quote Tags: heroism myth popularity hero worship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. —Harper Lee More about this quote Tags: democracy conscience popularity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause. —Clarence Darrow More about this quote Tags: experience popularity courage bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
However fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, thinks and lives fashionably; virtue and honor will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honor will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: love virtue future knowledge world popularity despair sacrifice present journalism honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email