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I would not compromise my principles for politics. You're saying, will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having? If it does, so… — Chris Christie
Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was… — Max Beerbohm
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. — Edsger Dijkstra
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… — Robert Harris
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? — Irwin Shaw
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… — Randal Cremer
The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own… — Vernon Howard
Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed. — Billy Graham
You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience. — Peter Cundill
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… — David Cameron
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… — W. S. Gilbert
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… — Carl Jung
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… — Carol Moseley Braun
If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk… — Richard M. Nixon
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
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. — C.S. Lewis
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… — Gabourey Sidibe
In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we give heed to,… — Carol F. McConkie
Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away… — Andrew Greeley
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… — Soren Kierkegaard
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and… — Winston Churchill
The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental… — Earl Warren
I'm not interested in what the public thinks. My fight is in the courts. And while I have been fighting with the appeal it has… — John Wayne Gacy
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate. — Benjamin F. Wade
I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice. — Tom Upton

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