An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
Seneca
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
G. K. Chesterton
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein
He is highly unpopular, ... because people in our country blame the military for destabilizing civilian government.
Benazir Bhutto
At the end of the day, it's a train station. Sometimes, you need to take unpopular steps.
Michael Baufeld
It's frustrating in the sense that we look dumber than we really are, ... We own a lot of unpopular but profitable stocks.
Donald Yacktman
A teacher's role is to be informative, but not persuasive. They need to talk to students. They need to make sure they know the issues, but like any other political issue, their role is not to express a specific opinion. A teacher is a citizen. A teacher has every right to ? on their own time ? be as public as they want, no matter how popular or unpopular their views.
Gayle Fallon
[Oregon State-Louisville: I love (ESPN analyst) Chris Spielman . After Louisville calls a pass play that goes for a touchdown (making the score 56-13), he chides Oregon State for playing man coverage.] I know this is an unpopular opinion, ... but it's not Louisville's job to stop themselves.
Chris Spielman
I disagree with Mike on that. I know it was a call that was unpopular with their team, but I feel I made the right call.
Larry Young
He is very closely associated with Bush in the public mind, and George Bush, rightly or wrongly, is fantastically unpopular in Britain. And so to get rid of him would be like getting rid of the millstone round his neck.
John Rentoul
The only thing more unpopular than private accounts was benefit cuts.
Brad Woodhouse
Blair has done what he thinks is right. Even though it's very unpopular, he's taken the view that he should stand there proud and defend what he believes in and not bend to opinion polls.
Peter Kellner
I don't know if we pushed someone in the back or not. I'd like to see who wasn't holding on that play. ... It's a very unpopular way to lose a football game.
Mike Hohensee
This study was performed in the spirit of the tradition that all scientific findings are open to challenge. Competing hypotheses, even if unpopular, should be encouraged and tested to be sure that accepted beliefs about health are sound.
Kaye Fillmore
What you see architecturally is what you get with personalities here. It's very much a sense of conformity. I became very unpopular because I dared to ask questions.
David Lyon
For the great majority of voters, it's one team, and if Clinton's popular, Gore's popular; if Clinton's unpopular, Gore's unpopular.
William Kristol
I always say the two most unpopular bits of advice I give people are to go work for someone else before starting your own label and to not do your own runway show when you're first starting out, unless someone else is paying the bill.
Mary Gehlhar
[To many Latin Americans,] the war smacks of U.S. imperialism and bullying and is extraordinarily unpopular, ... America is seen as an arrogant, run-amok republic that does things without thinking them through.
Riordan Roett
He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
Al Franken
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The death tax is growing increasingly unpopular with the American people, and it's for obvious reasons. They know double taxation when they see it. They know that if they pay income tax, they pay capital gains tax, they pay sales tax, that it's absolutely, fundamentally, inherently wrong to make death another taxable event.
Tim Hutchinson
You're a tobacco company, and you're unpopular, so you write me a check for $1.7 billion.
Robert Weber
It's become increasingly apparent that the law has become unpopular.
Kris Krane
Historically, propaganda has always merged with recruitment because people must first be conditioned to become soldiers and fight strangers in distant lands. It's not a natural condition but must be manipulated to get people to join unpopular realities.
Nancy Snow
My thesis is not we're entering a bear market, we're entering a new kind of market. We're entering a market where the secondary stocks, which have less risks, and unpopular stocks will probably do very well.
Lou Ehrenkrantz
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
Bill Delahunt
I'm very proud of her and her friends in the fact that they have made a decision that's probably unpopular at this day and age, but a decision that is for their future.
Kate Clanton
The issue of releasing Palestinian prisoners is very unpopular in Israel, and if he goes too far, he'll suffer more than by his failure to reach an agreement.
Chemi Shalev
My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.
Rose Elizabeth Bird
He made some tough decisions that were unpopular and the decisions have stuck with some people through the years, but to me, Bruce gets a lot of the credit for the athletic department being on such a strong foundation.
Gary Thompson
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
Dame Edith Sitwell
Maybe a crisis isn't apparent to all of us, but it is to them, ... Decisions are perhaps unpopular, but they're the sentries to see what's coming before the rest of us.
Joel Johnson
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith Sitwell
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw
The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are the most unpopular of all the races. They found that people were less likely to vote for Chinese-Americans than other minorities.
Iris Chang
[Rhys-Jones was recorded calling Prime Minister Tony Blair] President Blair ... number one on the top 10 unpopular people.
Camilla Parker Bowles
We can be right and still be unpopular. Popularity doesn't necessarily mean a man is doing all the right things.
Dale Stump
His polls have definitely weakened because, one, he had signed the legislative pay-raise bill last year, which was highly unpopular; and, two, he failed to deliver on his promise to lower property taxes.
Clay F. Richards
We end up producing the opposite of what we intended, and turn our children into unpopular, isolated adults.
Linda Blair
I know that is unpopular with them as far as a team, but I made the right call.
Larry Young
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.
John Williamson
These are very unpopular policies, and ASUH was left out of that conversation, but the PTA was included.
Katie Barry
He risks having to take unpopular measures to bring down the Italian deficit below three percent of gross domestic product by 2007.
Antonio Missiroli
Now people say he's not only unpopular but he's aging, he's irrelevant, ... It reinforces all of the questions in France about Chirac's leadership.
Pascal Perrineau
We realize that it is a difficult and sensitive issue. The decision of the board will be an unpopular one in some sectors of the community, but we believe halting the Spears' participation in the Super 14 for now is the right thing to do. Posterity will judge us harshly if we consider quick fixes.
Mpumelelo Tshume
We need to have these kinds of perhaps unpopular views of a major American icon presented to the public.
Jean Baker
To me it looks like these legislators are simply covering their tails because they know how hotly contested this has been and they made perhaps some unpopular votes with their decisions last session.
Rep Dave Crooks
Part circus huckster, part guerrilla fighter, part righteous rogue, Anderson waged a one-man journalistic resistance when it was exceedingly unpopular to do so.
Mark Feldstein
I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.
Edward Said
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