I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
There are actually many justices in history who have used the dissent mechanism to discuss the law in ways that others find… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is not simply the individual who benefits from and is protected by rights, but the society as a whole. Protected freedoms… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for… — Marvin Bower Copy Share Image
He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
“God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become… — Elsa Tamez Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Constant pressure by Turkish consulates across the United States, as well as pervasive and continual harassment by the government in Turkey, has… — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is a mighty document, but the rights it secures require constant vigilance - and the unwavering voices of justices who… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society. — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
“Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the accepted premise—that radical dissent demonstrates a personality disorder—the opposite could be true: in the face of severe injustice, a… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
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