I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent. — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty. — Shami Chakrabarti Copy Share Image
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions. — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Dissent is most controversial during wartime because it is cast as unpatriotic and dangerous to the national cause. But that is precisely… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...("… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they… — Edward Snowden 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
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
“And then they started deleting the protest reviews. That was my line. When they started to stamp out dissent, actually to make… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Passionate dissent from the will of the multitude should be respected, not derided. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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