Dissent Quotes
Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.
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Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.
Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.
Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.
I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.
In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.
To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.
Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.
I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.", 1953)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.
In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence, one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.
If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
Truth is the preferred weapon of God, and censorship is the most abused tool of the Devil.
Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.
You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.
Censorship is alive and well in America.
Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prioritize heresy over orthodoxy, will always prioritize the dissenting voice over the status quo.
Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.
Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent.
Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.
My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma.
The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent.
Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.
This is why i hate social media. It gives a voice to people who dont (sic) deserve one.
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.