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There is no doubt that dissents can serve a useful role by explaining when a justice thinks the majority has gone off the deep…

— Neal Katyal

“But the disposition to disagree, to reject and to dissent - however irritating it may be when taken to extremes - is the very…

— Tony Judt

“Actively encourage dissent and original thinking”

— BusinessNews Publishing

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us…

— Eric Hoffer

Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.

— Richard N. Haass

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their…

— Benjamin Cardozo

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave…

— Earl Warren

Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no".…

— Peter Block

“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Informed and rationally articulated dissent contributes to growth of ideas. Uniformed dissent, expressed through lung power, is a sign of insecurity. Countering dissent with…

— R. N. Prasher

Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons.…

— Thomas Jefferson

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing…

— Alexis de Tocqueville