Dissidents Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably… — Julian Assange
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need… — Isabel Allende
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be… — Ludwig von Mises
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of… — Jimmy Carter
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the… — Noam Chomsky
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms… — Jonathan Ott
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the countryâ€™s dissidents and marginalized who bear… — Glenn Greenwald
Civilization after civilization, it is the same.Â The world falls to tyranny with a whisper.Â The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived… — Steven Erikson
Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean… — Anthony Gregory
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most of what little… — Bob Black
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime:… — C.J. Sansom
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents. — Glenn Greenwald
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts. — Carol Tavris
These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where… — Ronald Reagan
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common… — Vaclav Klaus
Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline… — Vaclav Klaus
Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All… — Clay Shirky
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. — Abbie Hoffman
I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence. — Aung San Suu Kyi
This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the… — Evgeny Morozov

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