Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law. — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next. — Burton J. Hendrick Copy Share Image
Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them. — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
We need dissenting opinions, and we need people who aren't afraid to share them. The Biden administration doesn't want this. — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel,… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a… — Adam Grant Copy Share Image
At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
This is America. Dissenting voices will continue to voice their dissent. Because they've read the operating instructions for the United States of… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
“Having a dissenting opinion on movies, music, or clothes, or owning clever or obscure possessions, is the way middle-class people fight one… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“What is not challenged from outside is open to corruption from within. -This is the infinite value of a dissenting voice: that… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
You know, this entire industry, and its not just this industry, it's most people in media, come from one point of view.… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
“These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“and the other a man of atrabiliar aspect, with lank black hair, and a redundance of limp cravat — in fact, the… — George Eliot 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
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group,… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“Why do they need to get science journal editors removed from their jobs because they dared to publish a dissenting paper? • ” — Alan Carlin Copy Share Image
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation… — Ian Mcewan 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
In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside.… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
