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Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable. — Malachy McCourt

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. — Ian McEwan

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger

We were all alive, and we loved and hated and lived brilliant, messy existences. The air is thick with our wanting. — Katie Crouch

Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions. — Peter Drucker

I would not creep along the coast but steer
Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars. — George Eliot

I suppose people might consider me a 'loose' reader, as I seem willing to read anything of quality thinking and prose. — Chang-rae Lee

I first noticed I was missing on a Thursday. — Jeanne Ray

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)] — William O. Douglas

The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next. — Burton J. Hendrick

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege. — Louise Bourgeois

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms. — William Jennings Bryan

To delay is injustice. — Jean De La Bruyere

When you are watching the universe, you are watching yourself! Wherever you visit in the universe, you visit yourself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements. — Harvey Pekar

The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark. — Isaiah Crowell

Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no. — Norman Lamm

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up. — Harrison Ford

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law. — Charles Evans Hughes

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. — Eric Hoffer

internal commotion engines — Elisa Howard

We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts. — Eilis Flynn