Answers Quote by Eric Hoffer

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is…

— Jonah Lehrer

Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no".…

— Peter Block

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the…

— Lloyd Doggett

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their…

— Benjamin Cardozo

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

— Richard N. Haass

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

— Anonymous

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.

— Anonymous

“Dissent is most controversial during wartime because it is cast as unpatriotic and dangerous to the national cause. But that is precisely the time…

— Dan Rather

In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to…

— Edwin Gaustad

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

“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is…

— Jonah Lehrer

Dissents speak to a future age.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg