“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.” — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to… — Mehbooba Mufti Copy Share Image
“Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses...… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the… — Chris Sanders Copy Share Image
She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have, which is a rare thing, the ability and the responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself. To at least… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world.… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“a radical departure from what has been settled First Amendment law.” In a lengthy dissent, he argued that the Constitution’s framers had… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“mass surveillance kills dissent in a deeper and more important place as well: in the mind, where the individual trains him- or… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
I announced my dissent in the Citizens United orally, and I stumbled in my announcement. I had a little difficulty expressing myself.… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get… — Nasser Hussain Copy Share Image
I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
A dissent is the opportunity for the justices to express their differing views with respect to what the majority has done. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
Like 'em or hate 'em, these once peaceful gun owners of the '90s are feeling a lot like Jews of 1939 Germany.… — Claire Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
