I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“The truth hurts, sometimes, I suppose. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be known.” — Trisha Leigh Copy Share Image
Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed. — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile, — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of… — Peter Duesberg Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents… A lasting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The heaviest snowfall in over 60 years is being reported in Beijing, China. To give you an idea of how bad it… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Luckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn't, when… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city… — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
“It is enough to write a few lines about tanks in the streets in some sad country, about a clear injustice, which… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
“adolescent who expresses dissident opinion more or less vocally can end up in a place like that. Some of the children arrive… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs. — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
“Are you a politician? I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents.” — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“the true measure of a society’s freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
