Dissent Quote by Eric Hoffer

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the…

— Abraham Lincoln

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

— Henry David Thoreau

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs…

— Henry David Thoreau

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

— Abe Fortas

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

— David Harsanyi

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the…

— William Jennings Bryan

“The value of free speech lies not just in the protection of popular opinions but in the shelter it provides for dissenting voices. It…

— James William Steven Parker

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

— Jacob Bronowski

“The democratic system cannot be operated without effective opposition. For, in making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion,…

— Walter Lippmann

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one…

— Ludwig von Mises

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

— William E. Gladstone

There is no doubt that dissents can serve a useful role by explaining when a justice thinks the majority has gone off the deep…

— Neal Katyal