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
It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits… — Mike Thompson Copy Share Image
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. — John Galt Copy Share Image
A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did… — Clarence Thomas 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
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
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character. — J. William Fulbright 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
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
You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. — Gary Hamel 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
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away. — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
“One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's simply not bias for a judge to explain her reasoning in a dissent. — George T. Conway III Copy Share Image
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.” — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference. — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism? — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
