#unpopular

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#insignificance #unpopularity #vanity #vanity

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it. ↗

— Chris Christie

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I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel. ↗

— Fred Barnes

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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#free #free speech #meant #needs #popular

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#anything #century #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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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. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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