Best Unpopular Quotations
196 Unpopular quotes by 173 unique authors
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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…
— David Frum
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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…
— David Brooks
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I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.
— Craig Lancaster
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our heart, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.…
— Tabatha Coffey
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The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.
— Mark Twain
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The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started…
— Rachael Ray
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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…
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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I know I'm unpopular.
— Ehud Olmert
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Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.
— David Limbaugh
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I was never really unpopular in high school.
— Tyler Posey
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Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.
— Li Peng
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I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and…
— Donna Shalala
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably…
— Sam Shepard
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It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
— Ben Bernanke
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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…
— Fred Barnes
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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…
— John Sherman
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You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous…
— Anthony Kennedy
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There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do…
— Jairam Ramesh
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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.
— Roger Scruton
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
— Victor Pinchuk
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
— B. Carroll Reece
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Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
— James A. Garfield
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