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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular. — Desmond Tutu
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. — Vivienne Westwood
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save… — Ellen G. White
I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen. — Jeanette Winterson
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. — Daniel Handler
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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the… — Ayn Rand
I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take… — Madonna Ciccone
It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai E. Stevenson
The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese… — Jasper Fforde
Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody. — Justin Cronin
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of… — Edith Sitwell
NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree… — Bill Maher
According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do… — David McCullough
All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive. — Bertrand Russell
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process… — Edward R. Murrow
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in… — C.S. Lewis
It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures,… — Audre Lorde
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can… — Steve Martin
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of… — John Brunner
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. — Edith Wharton
I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for… — Michelle Moran
Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both… — Bertrand Russell
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable. — Stevie Smith

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