The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.
I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.
We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.
I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.
I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.
If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.
I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
A president can be unpopular for good reasons. You know, I'm not always on the side that the people are right, for God's sake. But, you know, he's not popular when he goes overseas. He couldn't go to Rosa Parks' funeral.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.