Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent. — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Love permits and even respects dissent: Authoritarianism does not. Everybody should learn the difference.” — Jeri Massi Copy Share Image
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict. — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager 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
“I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must not walk in fear of one another. We must not be driven by… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prioritize heresy over orthodoxy, will always… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent.… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
Dissent in art is a fundamental right. But if it is dissent about a book, a piece of art, and if you… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Dissent is verbal resistance. It is the affirmation of our voices, of our worth. It is, in a democracy, a fundamental right.… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that dissents can serve a useful role by explaining when a justice thinks the majority has gone off… — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so –… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.'… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention,… — William Johnson Cory Copy Share Image
In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
“Under the system of centralized control without constitutional checks and balances, the war spirit identifies dissent with treason, the pursuit of private… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not… — George Holyoake Copy Share Image
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves. — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.” — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image