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Dissent Quotes by William O. Douglas
- 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…
- These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have…
- Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
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- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey
- The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really… — Roseanne Barr
- Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. — Jacob Bronowski
- Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last… — Jacob Bronowski
- Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth
- I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects… — Harry Belafonte
- I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not… — Thomas Browne
- That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where… — Learned Hand
- There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect,… — Anne Hathaway
- Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a… — Warren G. Bennis
- America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager
- [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken