Quotes About Unpopular

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.

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.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

Journalists are not entertainers. We are reporters. We go to places that are unpopular. We broadcast voices that are controversial. We are not here to win popularity contests. We are here to cover the issues critical to a democratic society. We have to pressure the media, to shame the media into going into these forgotten places where so many are sent to waste away in silence.

Taxes are never popular.

I have one of those faces that nobody likes.

Although rarely given a clear definition, "extremism," in essence, is a term used to condemn those who hold unpopular values intransigently and in action refuse to compromise them; the nature of such action is not delimited by the concept.

He seems to be in a very bad temper." "Not really. He's always like that to waiters. You see he's a communist. Most of the staff of The Twopence are—they're University men, you see. Pappenhacker says that every time you are polite to a proletarian you are helping to bolster up the capitalist system. He's very clever of course, but he gets rather unpopular.

Despite his foreign policy successes, few gave Truman a chance of being reelected. The president went into his White House run deeply unpopular.

The modern mind is never popular in its own day. People hate being made to think.

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.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine; and remember that we are 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.

When I was growing up, golf was the geeky sport. No one really wanted to be associated with it.

Most fans outside Denver don't like me, and for good reason. I give them every reason not to like me.

Barring some competition from whales, wolves are probably America's most popular wild animal. Wolves are also contenders for America's most unpopular wild animal, with perhaps some competition from coyotes.

As governor, part of my job is to tell people things they don't like to hear.

The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally, and that, if possible, he should get the reputation of being well-to-do in the world.

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.

He wrote the kind of books that nobody could be expected to read.

Not everybody likes Ed Reed.

I'm the most hated guy in the division.

I like being the hated one.