I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood. . . . As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.
Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.
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.
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
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 moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. . . . Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. . . . fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.
I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
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 it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
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.
Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.
The Christian church does not need more popular preaching, but more unpopular preaching.
If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.
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.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.
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.
If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.