The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.” — Christopher Isherwood 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
“And in every instance, the motive is the same: suppressing dissent and mandating compliance.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it. — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State". — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in… — Pankaj Mishra 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
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent. — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You either 'get it' or you don't. Worrying about dissent only waters the product down; I'm a hard taskmaster, I take my… — Liza Tarbuck Copy Share Image
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars — Banksy Copy Share Image
Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact that there are singer-songwriters dealing with substantive issues is encouraging. It's important for young people to perceive that there are… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
What has happened now in mass media and advertising is not only that they've adopted the style and the look of fringe… — Mark Hosler Copy Share Image
Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began:… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
![“Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should remind them that the words of the Declaration [of Independence] apply not only to people in this country, but also…” quote by Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/189/howard-zinn-576_dissent_today-everybody-is-talking-about-the-fac_2973623.jpg)
