Dissent Quotes

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

— Jacob Bronowski

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

— Albert Einstein

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

— J. William Fulbright

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. [Misattributed]

— Thomas Jefferson

“Sometimes it's appropriate to scream at them.”

— Anonymous

In a dead religion there are no more heresies.

— Andre Suares

I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.

— David Burge

Dissent is as American as cherry pie.

— Richard N. Haass

“Humor is the ovum of dissent, and the Juche should fear it.”

— David Mitchell

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

— Natan Sharansky

Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.

— Richard N. Haass

“In a democratic system, the medium of dialogue is the best medium for not allowing the debate to become a dispute.”

— Ramnath Kovind

Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.

— Maria Isabel Barreno

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

— Rashida Tlaib

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion,…

— Don Tapscott

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to…

— Mehbooba Mufti

“Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.”

— Rosa Luxemburg

Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what…

— Margaret Heffernan

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

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

In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house…

— Norman Davies

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage.…

— Suzanne Collins

...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a…

— Noam Chomsky

No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I.…

— William J. Brennan

If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he…

— Seymour Hersh

“Dissent and dissidence are overwhelmingly the work of the young. It is not by chance that the men and women who initiated…

— Tony Judt

The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing…

— William O. Douglas

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew…

— Bob Ehrlich

It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when…

— Michael Hastings

The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is…

— Saint Augustine

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only…

— Ayn Rand

You must know the difference between dissent from the Iraq war and the war on terror and undermining it. And any American…

— Bill O'Reilly

There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia…

— Pankaj Mishra

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the…

— Barack Obama

[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with…

— H. L. Mencken

“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons…

— Suzy Kassem

“A French essayist has said: 'What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it.' You find it, and…

— Victor Serge

Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees…

— Anonymous