Top 368 Unpopular Quotes & Sayings

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

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.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

I was unpopular my whole life.

Trump might become deeply unpopular in the way that I, with some people, am deeply unpopular, but that doesn't mean that we don't get things done. You can be unpopular and successful.

Truth will only make you unpopular.

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.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

I've had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do?

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

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.

Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything.

I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.

Obama's very unpopular. I don't need a poll to tell me that.

It's not easy to do the unpopular thing.

As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.

At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of this rather heady mixture of violence and policies that are remarkably unpopular right down to the last iota, it's not hard for demagogues, especially people who claim to speak in the name of religion, in this case Islam, to raise a crusade against the United States and say that we must somehow bring America down.

I was never really unpopular in high school.

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

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

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.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

Unpopular but right is what you're going for.

First make yourself unpopular, then you will be taken seriously.

The problems of the disabled are unpopular.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

The monarchy has almost always been unpopular.

I have a little experience in doing things that are unpopular.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

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

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

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

I'm not afraid of making big and sometimes unpopular calls if they're the right thing to do.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

I know it is unpopular. I know the timing is unpopular. I know the whole thing is unpopular. But I believe it is the right thing.

I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being ugly and unpopular to systematically destroy the country.

Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular.

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.

I know I'm unpopular.

The more unpopular politicians are, the better people think it is to have a monarchy.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

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

I wasn't unpopular. I didn't have any trouble getting girls.

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

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.

It's easy to be popular when you don't make the decisions a president makes. And it's easy to be unpopular when you're the president because you're making decisions that at the time might seem unpopular; but when historians sort it out, it changes.

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

In high school, I was very unpopular.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.