Time Quote by Dan Rather

“One of the most dangerous signs of decline is the sudden reluctance to tolerate different points of view in political debate.  Questions and issues…

— Christopher Nuttall

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us…

— Eric Hoffer

“What the hell war isn’t unpopular?”

— Scott Eyman

Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.

— Richard N. Haass

“In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

“The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t mean merely…

— George Orwell

“Other wartime leaders would do well to imitate his inquisitive approach. They should not look for consensus, and instead should examine differences between advisors,…

— Thomas E Ricks

To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state is benevolent,…

— Noam Chomsky

“I disagreed with the conduct of the war, with bombing civilians, categorizing everyone as the enemy or simply as armed men, with the racism…

— Joe Glenton

“In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.”

— Gordy Slack

“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness.…

— C. Wright Mills