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.
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.
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.
Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth. . . It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.
Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.