Dissenting Quotes

26 Dissenting quotes by 25 unique authors

Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is… — Glenn Beck
And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health… — Walter Brueggemann
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement.… — Edward Abbey
You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you,… — Glenn Beck
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .… — Christopher Hitchens
My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom… — Jimmy Wales
The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next. — Unknown Author
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law. — Charles Evans Hughes
There was in the House only one dissenting vote, from Barbara J. Lee, a Democrat from California, who warned that military action could not guarantee… — Chris Hedges
I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent… — Timothy McVeigh
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the… — Mario Savio
Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no. — Norman Lamm
This does not mean that the profession is about to abandon Darwin forever or indorse [sic] my views publicly. The situation remains much as it… — Norman Macbeth
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with… — Ai Weiwei
After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that… — William Kunstler
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce
People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to… — Michael Newdow
At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was… — Israel Shenker
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
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
This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority. — Cass Sunstein
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. — Eric Hoffer
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian Mcewan
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that… — Chuck Palahniuk
Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. — Harvey Pekar

Who Wrote These Dissenting Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 26 Dissenting Quotes as follows: