Unpopular Ideas Quotes

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.

Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and they all stink.

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 with them because, again, I don't care too much what other people think.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

My goal is not to make popular things. My goal is to make the things I love as popular as I can make them.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

If printers (publishers) only printed that which everyone liked, there would be very little printed

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

I don't like hot takes any more than I like hot cakes.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.

One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

Talk to people no one else is talking to.

So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.

Every idea, no matter how unpopular, so far as the law is concerned, shall have the same opportunity as every other idea. no matter how popular, to secure the public favor.

It is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

There is a vast mass of opinion in this country represented neither by the politicians nor by the Press, and considerably saner than either.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

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

As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.