unpopular truth Quotes

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. 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.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don't want to hear about it. But when it's too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That's human nature.

Being right too early is one of the most devastating things in politics

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.

The negative cautions of science are never popular.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence.

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

If Jesus Christ had taken a poll, he would never have preached the gospel.

To get salvation we must not only do some things, but everything which God has commanded...The object with me is to obey and teach others to obey God in just what he tells us to do. It mattereth not whether the principle is popular or unpopular; I will always maintain a true principle even if I stand alone in it.

Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular?

You and I cannot be useful if we want to be sweet as honey in the mouths of men. God will never bless us if we wish to please men, that they may think well of us. Are you willing to tell them what will break your own heart in the telling and break theirs in the hearing? If not, you are not fit to serve the Lord. You must be willing to go and speak for God, though you will be rejected.

What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

Accurate intelligence is not always popular intelligence.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.