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
It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had… — Molly Antopol 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
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
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
The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most… — Timothy Garton Ash 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
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
Still I have been invited I don't know how many times to Turkey, where Turkey has been following very quickly in the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“Despots, it turns out, are learning to practice what journalist Rebecca MacKinnon calls “networked authoritarianism”—the use of the Internet to consolidate power.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of… — Peter Duesberg Copy Share Image
Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There was a period of time when I was very political, when I was at the university. It was like the late… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Today [ Sun Tzu] ideas are not widely applied, at least among Islamic dissidents, whose profligate use of indiscriminate terrorism appears to… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
“It is enough to write a few lines about tanks in the streets in some sad country, about a clear injustice, which… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
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