Sedition Quotes

24 quotes by 20 authors

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the… — Sun Tzu
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...… — Frank I. Cobb
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress… — Learned Hand
I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as… — Thomas Jefferson
If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a Jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh sedition. If one… — Adolf Hitler
The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. — Edward Abbey
I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, itâ€™s seditious.… — Bill Mollison
Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the… — PZ Myers
...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
The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member… — Michael Badnarik
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding. — Ben Jonson
Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is… — Jay Sekulow
It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales… — Maxim Gorky
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the… — George Bernard Shaw
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? — Juvenal
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all… — Bill Vaughan
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth… — Ben Elton
So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less shuffling of feet… — Frances Hardinge
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all… — Edmund Burke

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