Best Dissent Thoughts
219 Dissent quotes by 168 unique authors
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his…
— George Henry Lewes
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
— Edward R. Murrow
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
— George S. Patton
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
— John Charles Polanyi
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody…
— Laura Schlessinger
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Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of…
— Pete Seeger
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Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
— Natan Sharansky
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Discussion in America means dissent.
— James Thurber
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
— Desmond Tutu
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed…
— Gore Vidal
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
— Howard Zinn
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. [Misattributed]
— Thomas Jefferson
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If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
— Albert Einstein
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
— Albert Einstein
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Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's…
— Salman Rushdie
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Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
— Thornton Wilder
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;…
— John Stuart Mill
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would…
— William Faulkner
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Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts.…
— Richard Bach
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One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.
— John Stuart Mill
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Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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