Anything against the state's interests, through a…

Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other…

— Dale Jamieson

Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.

— Kapil Sibal

It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that…

— Yemi Osinbajo

“The Sedition Act made it a federal crime to publish anything about Congress or the president that would bring them into “contempt or disrepute.”…

— P.J. O'Rourke

“If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy ... to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political…

— Thomas Paine

“Sitting and sedition don't mix.”

— Bertolt Brecht

“Sedition was therefore explicitly intended as an instrument to terrorize Indian nationalists: Mahatma Gandhi was amongst its prominent victims. Seeing it applied in democratic…

— Shashi Tharoor

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

— George Bernard Shaw

“He had an AM radio playing a conservative talk show. The host was making some very interesting statements about the president. I don't usually…

— Jeff Lindsay

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is…

— PZ Myers

What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress…

— Learned Hand

A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

— Juvenal

You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying…

— Kapil Sibal

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

— Ben Jonson