Dissidents Quote by Nelson Mandela Download Open image “In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.” — Nelson Mandela ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dissidents Easier Inspirational Long walk to freedom Responsibility Way
Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it… — Jacob Gelt Dekker Copy Share Image
“The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice. — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory. — David Cottrell Copy Share Image
It is a rare and high privilege to be in a position to help people understand the differences that they can make not only… — Helen Boosalis Copy Share Image
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems,… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do". And as we let our light shine, we… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Luckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I was not.… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
Dissidents are not imprisoned as in the domains of the Kremlin, in the old days. They do not have their brains blown out by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and servitude, or that any human being aspires to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy. — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
Go back to the Bible, the Old Testament. I mean there were people who we would call intelectuals, there, they were called prophets, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs. — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image