America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. — Lord Byron 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
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned. — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action. — Jim Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy… — Antonin Scalia 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
This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a… — Nicholas Tharcher Copy Share Image
Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the ongoing war between the individual and community. That inner dissent against whatever group is surrounding you. No one… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves. — Alice Walker 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
The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty. — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“Malcontents who would dissent to paying rent are often bent on bad intent!!” — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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