Unpopular Quotes

#1. The call to self-emptying will always be unpopular to those whose pockets and closets are full. What

Kevin J. Vanhoozer

#2. Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Matthew Arnold

#3. What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

Bryce Courtenay

#4. 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

#5. People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Billy Corgan

#6. Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.

Jack Falahee

#7. My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Rose Bird

#8. What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

John Brunner

#9. The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth ... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.

Herbert Spencer

#10. Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.

Douglas Alexander

#11. Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

Jonathan Sacks

#12. If anyone asks me whether I like being a popular writer, I ask them whether they think I'd rather be an unpopular writer.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#13. Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they venture into the deeply divisive issue of religion - especially when their results tend to support a highly unpopular, atheistic conclusion.

Victor J. Stenger

#14. In this world it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous.

Melvin Laird

#15. I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood ... As a minister I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

Billy Graham

#16. Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

Frederick Douglass

#17. We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#18. Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends. It seems when you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change ... But only after trying their hardest to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER let anyone dilute your power to change!

Steve Maraboli

#19. If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.

Brian L. Roberts

#20. 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

#21. If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.

Ricky Gervais

#22. Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

Greg Proops

#23. The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

Dana Priest

#24. Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Alan Dershowitz

#25. I was extremely unpopular at school. Once the hardest kid in school beat me up and there was a plan for about 30 other kids to kick me in the face once I was down. Good times!

Oliver Sykes

#26. A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

W.S. Gilbert

#27. To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.

Lee Iacocca

#28. Congress also did something new, which is, they delayed for two years two new taxes - one on medical devices and one on high-end health insurance plans. Those taxes are supposed to help pay for President Obama's health care law, but they're really unpopular.

Susan Davis

#29. Because truth is unpopular does not mean that it should not be proclaimed.

Billy Graham

#30. In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution.

Bernie Sanders

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

Albert Einstein

#32. An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else's delusion that his (Watt's) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute.

David Foster Wallace

#33. California Governor Gray Davis visited an elementary school here in Los Angeles where he taught a class. I don't want to say he was unpopular but the kids gave him a wedgie and stuffed him in a locker.

Jay Leno

#34. Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Winston Churchill

#35. Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Lemony Snicket

#36. Are you willing to make the difficult choices? To do what's unpopular? It's not easy, but remember this: When people are calling you out and calling you names, they're really just calling you a leader.

Darren Hardy

#37. When you decide to live a totally surrendered life, that decision will be tested. Sometimes it will mean doing inconvenient, unpopular, costly, or seemingly impossible tasks. It will often mean doing the opposite of what you feel like doing.

Rick Warren

#38. We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#39. The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

Carol Moseley Braun

#40. We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

Edward R. Murrow

#41. To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

Michael Bloomberg

#42. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

C. Vann Woodward

#43. Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

Marty Meehan

#44. The popular shall become unpopular. The freak shall inherit the Earth.

Tommy Wallach

#45. And so a leader of a meeting must make it a priority to seek out and uncover any important issues about which team members do not agree. And when team members don't want to engage in those discussions, the leader must force them to do so. Even when it makes him or her temporarily unpopular.

Patrick Lencioni

#46. My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular ... That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system.

Jack Nicholson

#47. Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Charlton Heston

#48. As becomes more obvious every day, good citizenship is highly unpopular.

Kurt Vonnegut

#49. I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Sitwell

#50. Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

Christina Stead

#51. Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

Margaret Chase Smith

#52. Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

Linda Barnes

#53. I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.

Benjamin F. Wade

#54. A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

Rachel Stevens

#55. You're an unpopular man. Memorable-but remarkably unpopular. You have no friends, for instance, in Brooklyn. Around Henry Street, say, where old women sit on the stoops in their aprons and men play dominoes on cardtables by the curb.

James Sallis

#56. I'm actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Bono

#57. The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don't like to be the nail that sticks up, as they say.

Christopher Galvin

#58. Experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

Tom McClintock

#59. You're not gay, are you?
What?!
I mean you've never had a boyfriend. And you're not exactly ... girly.
I'm not gay. I'm just unpopular.

Kristin Walker

#60. I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.

Gail Carson Levine

#61. Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.

Haki R. Madhubuti

#62. The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.

Alvin Plantinga

#63. The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year ... A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.

David Brooks

#64. Unpopular because he was stupid and fat and mean, and smelled like bacon no matter how much he washed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#65. Popular and unpopular don't necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course.

Hal Duncan

#66. The government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned by powerful elites is the ideal we should seek, even if it has a name that is wildly unpopular: capitalism

Jeffrey Tucker

#67. As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.

Thomas Frank

#68. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

Vivienne Westwood

#69. They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I'm awesome. But the truth is that I've been awesome, and then I got this role.

Gabourey Sidibe

#70. A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

Harry S. Truman

#71. The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so.

Henry Rollins

#72. You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#73. I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.

Sydney Smith

#74. It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.

Ezra Taft Benson

#75. A president can be unpopular for good reasons. You know, I'm not always on the side that the people are right, for God's sake. But, you know, he's not popular when he goes overseas. He couldn't go to Rosa Parks' funeral.

Bill Maher

#76. What the hell war isn't unpopular?

Scott Eyman

#77. The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

Paul Robeson

#78. BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

Emma Watson

#79. I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Jimmy Carter

#80. Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything.

Kin Hubbard

#81. Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

David Limbaugh

#82. If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

Leonard Ravenhill

#83. Even though it's an unpopular paradigm, wear your heart on your sleeve, and mean what you say. Believe in what you say, and there will be a time for that. Maybe that time hasn't come yet, but there will be a time for that.

Geoff Rickly

#84. Truth will only make you unpopular.

Wolfgang Borchert

#85. I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.

Deborah Rhode

#86. Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.

David Frum

#87. In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

B. Carroll Reece

#88. The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.

Vivienne Westwood

#89. Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

Fred Barnes

#90. It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.

Guy Kawasaki

#91. I will venture to assert that no combination of designing men under heaven will be capable of making a government unpopular which is in its principles a wise and good one, and vigorous in its operations.

Alexander Hamilton

#92. made Weary sick to be ditched. When Weary was ditched, he would find somebody who was even more unpopular than himself, and he would horse around with that person for a while, pretending to be friendly. And then he would find some pretext for beating the shit out of him. It

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#93. Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

Clint Eastwood

#94. It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#95. Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.

Howard Fast

#96. And then
with the curse, or, in this case, blessing, of the unpopular, the unathletic, the overweight, the strange
they vanished like shadows into the spring night.

Francesca Lia Block

#97. As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

Nelson Mandela

#98. Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Fran Lebowitz

#99. You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I'm going to work every single day, I don't think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!

Mindy Kaling

#100. We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

Peter Hargreaves