Quotes About Unpopular

Martyrs are the best possible advertisements for an unpopular cause.

I'm not trendy and I'm not popular.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

Nothing is as unpopular as the truth."

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

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.

Kirkpatrick's appointment was said to be unpopular with some Reagan insiders such as the Kitchen Cabinet, who held against her that she was a Democrat and therefore not a Reagan loyalist.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

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.

Sticking up for truth when it is unpopular is far more of a virtue, because it costs you something—your reputation.

by?em przeciwnikiem wojen dawno temu, w czasach gdy nie by?o to popularne ani modne...

If investing is all about creativity and making unusual, unconventional, and even unpopular decisions, great investment decisions are best made by individuals taking direct responsibility for the results of their own acts.

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.

Iconoclasts who go around popping cherished myths are usually highly unpopular — until either they, or the myths, are dead.

There are apparently two types of successful soldiers. Those who get on by being unobtrusive and those who get on by being obtrusive. I am of the latter type and seem to be rare and unpopular: but it is my method. One has to choose a system and stick to it; people who are not themselves are nobody.

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.

The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.

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

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.

La realtà è diversa, ma sgradita, e dunque poco raccontata.

As a consequence, the United States is a safe place for those who want to criticize the government but a dangerous place for those who want to advance unpopular thoughts about any other subject that could be deemed insulting or discomfiting.

Die Avantgarde auf allen Gebieten besteht aus den Einsamen, den Freundlosen, den Uneingeladenen. Jeglicher Fortschritt kommt von den Unbeliebten.

I realize that fascism is an old-fashioned word today, but it wasn't in 1947, and since it always began first with the separation and then with the suppression of an unpopular minority, it seemed a lot wiser and easier to fight it in the opening stage than wait until it

With communism wicking across the Far East, America's leaders began to see a future alliance with Japan as critical to national security. The sticking point was the war-crimes issue; the trials were intensely unpopular in Japan, spurring a movement seeking the release of all convicted war criminals. With the pursuit of justice for POWs suddenly in conflict with America's security goals, something had to give.