Dissent Quotes
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Growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
— Abigail McCarthy
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
— Emma Goldman
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Humor is the ovum of dissent,
— David Mitchell
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
— Howard Zinn
And in every instance, the motive is the same: suppressing dissent and mandating compliance.
— Glenn Greenwald
In a dead religion there are no more heresies.
— Andre Suares
A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.
— Anthony Marra
For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.
— Rebecca West
I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.
— Jeremy Corbyn
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
— George Henry Lewes
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.
— Glenn Greenwald
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
— Natan Sharansky
It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.
— Jim Ratcliffe
The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.
— James Surowiecki
MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
— Ambrose Bierce
The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.
— John Stuart Mill
When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.
— Glenn Greenwald
Love permits and even respects dissent: Authoritarianism does not. Everybody should learn the difference.
— Jeri Massi
No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.
— Tiffany Madison
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
— Henry Steele Commager
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
— Howard Zinn
Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.
— Sherry Turkle
This is why i hate social media. It gives a voice to people who dont (sic) deserve one.
— Gary Streeter
Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
— John Steinbeck
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
— Galileo Galilei
The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.
— Catherine Lowell
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
— Albert Einstein
If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
— Abraham Lincoln
In the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure.
— Glenn Greenwald
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
— 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
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.
— Suzanne Collins
Perhaps why I am so uniquely terrible is simply that I represent total Dissent. Total Dissent. T.D. 19 + 4 = 23.
— William S. Burroughs
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
— Claudio Magris
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
— Benjamin Franklin
We must dissent from the fear.
— Thurgood Marshall
People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.
— Christopher Hitchens
Dissent without action is consent.
— Henry David Thoreau
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.
— Christopher Isherwood
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.
— Roseanne Barr
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
— Albert Einstein
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
— Abbie Hoffman
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
— Howard Zinn
The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own.
— Anker Frankoni
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
— Catherine Of Siena
Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".
— Antonin Scalia
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
— David Harsanyi
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
In a room wherepeople unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot. — Czeslaw Milosz
The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.
— Monica Crowley
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values
— Jacob Bronowski
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
— Emma Goldman
Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.
— Allen Ginsberg
Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is.
— Thurman Arnold
Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.
— J. William Fulbright
I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
— Lord Byron
Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.
— John McCain
Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent.
— Christina Engela
Humor is the ovum of dissent, and the Juche should fear it.
— David Mitchell
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
— Jacob Bronowski
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
— Natan Sharansky
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
— Harold Pinter
The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance.
— Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee
Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent.
— David F. Wells
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
— Harry Belafonte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.
— Leon Eisenberg
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
— George Carlin
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
— John Charles Polanyi
The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
— Bill Vaughan
