Dissent Quotes
Dissent Quote of the day
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".
Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible.
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.
I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
