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

Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time. — Sandra Day O'Connor

An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard. — Newton Lee

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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 catfish. — Edith Sitwell

You're not gay, are you?
What?!
I mean you've never had a boyfriend. And you're not exactly ... girly.
I'm not gay. I'm just unpopular. — Kristin Walker

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar. — Bruce Springsteen

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.

A free society is one where it's safe to be unpopular, but then, freedom of speech also carries with it the freedom not to listen! — Ashwin Sanghi

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

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular. — Thomas B. Macaulay

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

An unpopular rule is never long maintained. — Seneca.

Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide. — Ernie J Zelinski

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times. — Mickey Drexler

She had no idea her view that school funding should actually be used on education instead of football would be so wildly unpopular. — Katie Graykowski

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

Truth will only make you unpopular. — Wolfgang Borchert

As becomes more obvious every day, good citizenship is highly unpopular. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

I know I'm unpopular. — Ehud Olmert

In this world it is becoming more and more unpopular to be a Christian. Soon it may become dangerous. — Melvin Laird

Unpopular because he was stupid and fat and mean, and smelled like bacon no matter how much he washed. — Kurt Vonnegut

Experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity. — Tom McClintock

I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies. — Mary Harron

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world. — Thomas Beecham

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

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. — Lemony Snicket

It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular. — Ezra Taft Benson

In and out of government, I've always been willing to take on complicated, sometimes unpopular, issues and work them through to have a solution. — Bernie Sanders

Unpopular but right is what you're going for. — Sam Altman

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. — Matt Bomer

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. — Billy Corgan

Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right. — George W. Bush

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people. — Paul Robeson

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

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. — Robert Hughes

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

The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about. — Paul Graham

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

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

I wasn't unpopular, exactly. I was just . . . unequipped. — Katie Cotugno

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! — Matthew Arnold

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

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles. — Ben Bernanke

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

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

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses. — Ricky Gervais

The depositary of power is always unpopular. — Benjamin Disraeli

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular. — Victor Pinchuk

It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team. — Oliver Kahn

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil. — Nelson Rodrigues

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

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. — James A. Garfield

Popular and unpopular don't necessarily map to shit and shinola, of course. — Hal Duncan

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular. — Saul Alinsky

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

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

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country. — Harry S. Truman

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

The popular shall become unpopular. The freak shall inherit the Earth. — Tommy Wallach

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular. — H.L. Mencken

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right. — Pete Hegseth

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty. — Winston Churchill

Orman nodded wearily 'As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him — John Flanagan

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

Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular. — Joshua Micah Marshall

He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber. — Al Franken

And I suppose have only made myself more unpopular: ah yes: but freer. That's the point. — Virginia Woolf

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

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

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best. — John Kenneth Galbraith

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS. — Emma Watson

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. — Linda Barnes

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. — Adolf Hitler

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular. — B. Carroll Reece

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

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

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular. — Arthur Baer

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come. — Nelson Mandela

I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry! — Joe Lieberman

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular. — Jenny Holzer

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

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

The call to self-emptying will always be unpopular to those whose pockets and closets are full. What — Kevin J. Vanhoozer

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because thy require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

Why do I speak forth the unpopular? I have a sweet tooth but not when it comes back up. — Donna Lynn Hope

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing. — Thomas B. Macaulay

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

Honesty suited Andrew because he was an instigator at heart and his opinions were often unpopular. — Nora Sakavic

There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie's. — Ron Brackin

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular. — Ann Widdecombe

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

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it. — Rose Bird

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

To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap. — Jennifer Ziegler

You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience. — Peter Cundill