Unpopular Quotes

“We expect populists to be popular. However, what can be more inconsistent and nonsensical than “unpopular” populists. They start doing everything to fit the job and are gritting their teeth so hard that they shatter them all and are chewed to bits. The moral … let us be genuine, humble, and coherent instead of stumbling from a vainglorious stance into the opposite. ("Keeping up with the Joneses" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid.”
― Su-Mari Diedericks

“Question everything that is popular, and seek answers in what is not.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Truth will only make you unpopular.”
― Wolfgang Borchert

“Not easy having her for a mom.
When did her ambitions die? If I had to guess, the day she graduated from Martha Stewart’s School for Stepford Housewives. Never inspirational, she’s more of an embarrassment for an already unpopular kid like me. What can I say? I’ve got plain-and-ordinary running through my veins. Maybe that’s why I can’t shake this stench of unremarkable. It goes back generations.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe

“Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Attempting to appropriate or denigrate the popularity of others will backfire and undermine yours.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The thing is, if you're an ugly goon when you're 15, you're an ugly goon for the rest of your life — until the day you die. You're always a goon, even if lots of years go by, even if you get married and have a kid, even if you're more successful than you ever thought you'd be in your wildest dreams. You're still that same goon who everybody laughed at. It never changes.”
― David Handler, The Boy Who Never Grew Up

“Why do I speak forth the unpopular? I have a sweet tooth but not when it comes back up.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“(Mr. Friedman) was always kind of dopey."
"Actually, Bob is very smart. Too smart to be a teacher. It's why he doesn't connect with the stuxents.”
― Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive

“The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.”
― Margaret Chase

“Soberly teach the enlightened souls the reality that they will be rejected by the massively ignorant, for the unpopular, absolute truths they style their lives with...in a confident know-show.”
― Tracey Bond

“... Modern life is always experienced as a struggle: to impose one's individuality on the world, one has to work against the fabric of modern culture itself and uphold ultimate values in the face of purely instrumental and ever more 'rational' forces.”
― Nicholas Gane, Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalisation Versus Re-enchantment

“The truth that brings no applause is often the most needed.”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan