Dissent Quotes

219 Dissent quotes by 168 unique authors

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone. — Claudio Magris
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict. — Mo Rocca
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of… — Colin Robinson
Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks power. — Madame de Stael
We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a… — John Lewis
He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind.… — Joost Meerloo
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history;… — Barack Obama
What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent… — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves. — Jonathan Messinger
I disagree with the Supreme Court's decision and I agree with the dissent. What the court did not do on its last day in session,… — Mitt Romney
The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith,… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked. — Harold Pinter
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative,… — Clinton Rossiter
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are… — Bernardine Dohrn
Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism,… — Carlton Pearson
It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent — Dennis Prager
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars — Banksy
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism… — Edmund Burke
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen. — Michael Servetus
If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't… — Umair Haque
Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse.… — Richard Lindzen
One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The dissent industry is… — Sylvia Ostry
The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring… — William O. Douglas
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. — Richard Perle
...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance… — J. Paul Getty

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