In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour, but sometimes it is the price of leadership and the cost of conviction.
I do think what the Tea Party also had was Obamacare and the unpopularity of that, at least at the time. And so whether there is something that is equally unpopular and equally galvanizing that is almost self-destructive from the administration, that's another factor that we will wait and see.
There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.
