Top 100 Unpopular Quotes
#1. We 'can't' always 'cushion' our views..
'Soften' the stance..
'Straight Talk' involves least effort..
No 'beating about the bush'..
Say it as it is..
Ofcourse, stay ready to be unpopular!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#2. Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.
Robert Harris
#3. An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.
Newton Lee
#4. Ada and Isabel had been unpopular in high school. They had talked incessantly of money and social position, making themselves very obnoxious to the other students.
Carolyn Keene
#5. The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
Jasper Fforde
#6. New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is chronic government deficits, paid for by the issuance of additional paper money.
Henry Hazlitt
#7. [Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.
[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]
Chapman Cohen
#8. I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!
Joe Lieberman
#9. Progress has always been achieved by probing well-entrenched and well-founded forms of life with unpopular and unfounded values. This is how man gradually freed himself from fear and from the tyranny of unexamined systems.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
#10. You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.
Betty Boothroyd
#11. 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
#12. Question everything that is popular, and seek answers in what is not.
Suzy Kassem
#13. I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.
Craig Lancaster
#14. I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
Rachel Zucker
#15. You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience.
Peter Cundill
#16. To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap.
Jennifer Ziegler
#17. 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
#18. Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.
Thomas Beecham
#19. Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#21. The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
Ben Bernanke
#22. For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.
H.L. Mencken
#23. I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.
Madonna
#24. To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.
Whitney Tilson
#25. The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.
Henry Blodget
#26. Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.
Arthur Baer
#27. Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
Bernard Baruch
#28. We should celebrate more often politicians who stand up and say things that are unpopular.
Philip Davies
#29. Honesty suited Andrew because he was an instigator at heart and his opinions were often unpopular.
Nora Sakavic
#30. I'm not staring. I'm observing ... And what do you observe? ... A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.
Michelle Moran
#31. I wasn't unpopular, exactly. I was just . . . unequipped.
Katie Cotugno
#32. It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.
Randal Cremer
#33. I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?
James D. Watson
#34. The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.
Chuck Palahniuk
#35. The truth is a thing I get id of as soon as possible! Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club... with the older members. They call it being conceited. Perhaps it is.
Oscar Wilde
#36. Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager, a self conscious young adult) who no longer exists.
Deepak Chopra
#37. Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.
Matt Bomer
#38. The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful groups.
Eric Schlosser
#39. What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.
Rick Warren
#41. Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
Saul Alinsky
#42. For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.
Ann Widdecombe
#43. Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
Stevie Smith
#44. And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.
Eric Johnston
#45. I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them.
Ricky Gervais
#46. 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
#47. Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#48. 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.
Emma Goldman
#49. 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
#50. It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.
Oliver Kahn
#51. At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.
Lucy Powell
#52. I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed,
William Rehnquist
#53. When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.
David Ignatius
#54. I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith Sitwell
#55. Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.
Li Peng
#56. A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
Glenn Greenwald
#57. The racial laws which excluded the Jews from the German community seemed to a foreign observer to be a shocking throwback to primitive times, but since the Nazi racial theories exalted the Germans as the salt of the earth and the master race they were far from being unpopular. A
William L. Shirer
#58. Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Neal Boortz
#59. A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#60. In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
Noah Feldman
#61. I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain's future - and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping 'the least of these' even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular.
Gordon Brown
#62. Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult and therefore, unpopular.
Carl Jung
#63. President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010.
Ben Shapiro
#64. She had no idea her view that school funding should actually be used on education instead of football would be so wildly unpopular.
Katie Graykowski
#65. I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#66. A free society is one where it's safe to be unpopular, but then, freedom of speech also carries with it the freedom not to listen!
Ashwin Sanghi
#67. ... The individual is still obliged to confer the legitimacy of mutually antagonistic values, for even though the array of ultimate values may contract with the rationalization of the world, one is never relieved from the existential burden of choice ('taking a stand').
Nicholas Gane
#68. 'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.
Dave Goldberg
#69. Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency than to compete in the open market.
Charles Koch
#70. I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.
Kristen Bell
#71. President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.
Pete Hegseth
#72. All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident
enabling unpopular persons to survive.
Bertrand Russell
#73. Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.
George W. Bush
#74. In high school, I was very unpopular.
Rene Russo
#75. As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.
Hetty King
#76. Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.
Oscar Hammerstein II
#77. To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.
Paul Stanley
#78. The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.
Walter Russell Bowie
#79. 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.
Lord Melbourne
#80. You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.
Mickey Drexler
#81. I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Jeanette Winterson
#82. He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
Al Franken
#83. Orman nodded wearily 'As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him
John Flanagan
#84. Unpopular but right is what you're going for.
Sam Altman
#85. People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.
Winston Churchill
#86. I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.
Emma Watson
#87. I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.
Kent Beck
#88. Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.
Richard Norton Smith
#89. Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#90. (Mr. Friedman) was always kind of dopey."
"Actually, Bob is very smart. Too smart to be a teacher. It's why he doesn't connect with the stuxents.
Jessica Knoll
#91. I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.
Benigno Aquino III
#92. First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.
Konrad Adenauer
#93. Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
Tabatha Coffey
#94. 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
#95. Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
Robert Hughes
#96. When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.
Jane Birkin
#97. The idea that the Lord wanted me to make prayer such a driving emphasis seemed counterintuitive to positioning the church for revival. How could it be that quite possibly the most unpopular activity in church culture could become a birthing center for a history-making move of the Holy Spirit?
Michael Brown
#98. I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
Rachael Ray
#99. I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
Sam Shepard
#100. When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.
Robert Kiyosaki
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