Dissenters Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them… — Benjamin Franklin
Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels. — David Ogilvy
The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is why most advertisements… — David Ogilvy
I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest, — William O. Douglas
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. — Dan Gable
Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous… — Norman Finkelstein
And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters… — George Seldes
Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from… — Mustafa Akyol
If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. — A J P Taylor
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In… — J. Paul Getty
The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as… — Jacques Barzun
There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory… — Dan Gable
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know… — Learned Hand
Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most… — Eric Hoffer
Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent. — Abe Fortas
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
Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation. — Silvio Berlusconi
Astronomers who do not draw theistic or deistic conclusions are becoming rare, and even the few dissenters hint that the tide is against them. Geoffrey… — Hugh Ross
The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are… — Alan Dershowitz

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