Top 75 Unpopular Quotes

I was never really unpopular in high school.

I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain’s future – and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping ‘the least of these’ even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular.

The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own parents couldn’t do for me when I was a girl. I am so ready to be that little girl’s mother.

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

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

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 century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

What’s the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn’t make a lot of sense. For me it doesn’t, anyway.

A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that – more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

Obama hasn’t been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that’s a large part of it.

My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It’s about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

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

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

History shows that any attempt by government to interfere in the consumption of salt is always extremely unpopular.

When I did ‘Baby Got Back,’ I did it to be unpopular.

Geek culture is all about being super passionate about your interests and not afraid to express them, even if your interests are unpopular.

I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?

Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular.

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

You’ve got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

I try to buy shares of unpopular companies when they look like road kill and sell them when they’ve been polished up a bit.

We need an honest politician in charge who doesn’t care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.

My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn’t attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.

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

I remember Congressman Conyers voting against the PATRIOT Act, voting against the Iraq War when it was unpopular to. That tremendous amount of courage that comes with that kind of leadership, I mean, that’s what we need.

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

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That’s what natural history programmes should be for.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

It’s not easy to do the unpopular thing.

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

‘Cosmopolitan’ used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn’t tank their entire sales.

I know I’m unpopular.

Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it’s not nice.

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

I am not aiming to be unpopular. I am aiming to get good results, and sometimes you need to stick your elbows out to get those results.

You’re saying ‘will it become politically unpopular to have the position I’m having.’ If it does, so be 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.

In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.

Well I think that what we’re seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don’t have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

I was unpopular my whole life.

Democratic candidates who run from President Obama in red states where he is unpopular are making a big mistake. Their holding Obama at arm’s length deprives voters of a clear choice at the ballot box.

At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. It’s a hard feeling to shake off. Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

I have a long history of being unpopular with people around.

I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I’m used to.

The problems of the disabled are unpopular.

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that’s not too much to ask.

Obamacare itself did not become popular until the middle of 2017, when the risk of repeal was the greatest; for the bulk of 2010 after passage, it was unpopular by double-digit margins.

Republicans’ focus on defunding or scaling back Obamacare – an unpopular entitlement program – rather than entitlements generally, namely Social Security and Medicare, has raised questions about their true objective. But critics forget that spending is fungible.

Trump in particular was such an unpopular candidate, because he’s so anti communities of color, and we’re a minority majority state, are you kidding?

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

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

Since I believe that a person’s philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.

The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of ‘the dark times’ of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.

The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional amendment.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn’t it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

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

I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of ‘inclusion’ was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.