“the true measure of a society’s freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient… — Tom Gjelten 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries… — Jimmy Carter 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
What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to… — William J. Duiker 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
Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city… — Anthony Gregory 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
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
To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety… — Zeena Schreck 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
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
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
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
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 era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do… — Spiro T. Agnew 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
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
I've always thought that the most powerful weapon in the world was the bomb and that's why I gave it to my… — Andrei Sakharov 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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