popular

A good listener is not only popular everywhere,
but after a while he gets to know something.

When people don't understand the principles of government or understand the execution of the process of government, government suffers at the hand of popular misconception.

Cowardice askes the question:"Is it safe"? Expediency asks the question:"Is it politic"? Vanity asks the question:"Is it popular?"But conscience asks the question:"Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one what is right.

If I say you are a bad person I can almost see you worsen.  
Funny how my words for you have a way of becoming true in my mind.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. 

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.