Best Dissent Words
219 Dissent quotes by 168 unique authors
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In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.
— Rollo May
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I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now…
— Antonio Gramsci
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Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.
— Abe Fortas
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Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
— Robert H. Jackson
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Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last…
— Lloyd Doggett
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Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
— Bill Keller
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Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and…
— Marvin Bower
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No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I. And no doubt,…
— William J. Brennan
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Dissent is the mark of freedom.
— Jacob Bronowski
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When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.
— Fausto Cercignani
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The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not…
— William O. Douglas
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The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court,…
— William O. Douglas
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Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created an adult unrest…
— William O. Douglas
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Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.
— Rush Limbaugh
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We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this…
— John Lindsay
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There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability…
— Natalie Merchant
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A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can…
— Natan Sharansky
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In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by…
— Andrew Jackson
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I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion - the only sure foundation and…
— Martin Van Buren
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As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the…
— Grover Cleveland
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It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself.…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational contrarianism to Barack…
— Jon Stewart
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Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.
— John Galt
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