Dissent Quotes · Page 7

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

— Alice Walker

Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.

— John Galt

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

— Learned Hand

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

— Natan Sharansky

It's simply not bias for a judge to explain her reasoning in a dissent.

— George T. Conway III

I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery.

— Woody Allen

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

— Harold Pinter

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

— Jimmy Swaggart

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all…

— William Faulkner

In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we…

— Nhat Hanh

MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in…

— Ambrose Bierce

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should…

— Claudio Magris

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

— Todd Akin

“Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prioritize heresy over orthodoxy, will always…

— Maajid Nawaz

“Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”

— Rosa Luxemburg

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion,…

— Don Tapscott

If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he…

— Seymour Hersh

“Dissent and dissidence are overwhelmingly the work of the young. It is not by chance that the men and women who initiated…

— Tony Judt

...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a…

— Noam Chomsky

Our nations are run by absolute worthless scum, our streets are taken over by sub-humans, the food we eat and the water…

— Varg Vikernes

The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is…

— Saint Augustine

Our politics are being hijacked by a comparatively small number of people who seek to dominate the debate by screaming the loudest.…

— John Avlon

The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing…

— William O. Douglas

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew…

— Bob Ehrlich

“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of…

— Jonah Lehrer

“Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the…

— Howard Zinn

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

— Henry Steele Commager

America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.

— Henry Steele Commager

Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.

— Charlie Chaplin

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.”

— Suzanne Collins

If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?

— Howard Zinn

The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.

— John Stuart Mill

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

— Jonathan Messinger

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

— Ron Paul

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

— Henry Steele Commager

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

— Lord Byron