Quotes about Unpopular Stance

Ann Widdecombe

For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

E. B. White

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

Georg Cantor

This view, which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!.

When he first developed and published his Set Theory and Transfinite Arithmetic concepts, few professional mathematicians understood his material although he had successfully taught it to 8th grade girls. The material was so counter-intuitive in the mathematic intuition of the day, most of the greatest mathematicians in Germany viewed his work not only as flawed but absurd. It did not take too long however for most to “get it” and come over to his intuitive view which soon the world held.

Gordon Brown

I welcome the role that people of faith play in building Britain's future - and the Catholic communion in particular is to be congratulated for so often being the conscience of our country, for helping 'the least of these' even when bearing witness to the truth is hard or unpopular.