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
An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in… — Michel Foucault 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
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
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
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
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
The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for… — Noam Chomsky 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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“The truth hurts, sometimes, I suppose. But that doesn`t mean it shouldn`t be known.” — Trisha Leigh 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
“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
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