Character Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Richard N. Haass

Opposition provides choices, and choices bring consequences - good or bad.

— Ezra Taft Benson

A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

— Wendy McElroy

Every decision you make has a consequence.

— Michael Arden

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

“If you can bring dissent and disagreement to a common understanding of what the decision is all about, you create unity in action, and…

— Joseph A. Maciariello

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

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

— Anonymous

“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as if it…

— Edmund Burke

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

— Charles Evans Hughes

“Far-sighted, rational deliberation usually comes out in favour of one decision, while immediate inclination comes out for the other. As long as we have…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I…

— Learned Hand