“The truth hurts, sometimes, I suppose. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be known.” — Trisha Leigh Copy Share Image
I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile, — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The heaviest snowfall in over 60 years is being reported in Beijing, China. To give you an idea of how bad it… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents… A lasting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
To use the terms that are reserved for official enemies, it is the commissars and apparatchiks, not the dissidents, who are respected… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs. — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Luckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn't, when… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Dissidents are not imprisoned as in the domains of the Kremlin, in the old days. They do not have their brains blown… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well, as soon as [Donald Trump] travels to 112 countries and negotiates a peace deal, a cease-fire, a release of dissidents, an… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“adolescent who expresses dissident opinion more or less vocally can end up in a place like that. Some of the children arrive… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Are you a politician? I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents.” — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy. — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does… — Wendy Kaminer 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
It's very important to remember that the philosophers were social dissidents. They were social critics. The man in the street or woman… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whether a country is actually free is determined not by how well-rewarded its convention-affirming media elites are and how ignored its passive… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
There is one Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims. Medina, Mecca, and. Dissidents, reformers, whatever you want to call them. The… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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