Dissent Quote by John Charles Polanyi

No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who…

— Glenn Greenwald

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent.…

— Glenn Greenwald

Constant pressure by Turkish consulates across the United States, as well as pervasive and continual harassment by the government in Turkey, has so far…

— Enes Kanter

The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent

— Utah Phillips

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have…

— Margaret Atwood

We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts…

— Wernher von Braun

Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to…

— Claude Bernard

'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means…

— Rudolf Virchow

In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“Q: What can people do to defend their civil liberties? Phillips: I'm a pacifist, but the most American thing you can do is to…

— Utah Phillips

As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.

— Andrew Breitbart

I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there is danger…

— Ellen G. White