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

Common Sense Is Not So Common
/Murphy's Law/

Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
George Bernard Shaw

The only times something's right, is when everyone agrees its wrong.
/Murphy's Law/

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill

We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.
Mark Twain /Mark Twain in Eruption/