Quotes About Dissenter

For me, I prefer to be the heel.

The unexpected aristocratic dissenter of 1917, Lord Lansdowne, was entirely right to see that the war had irrevocably unleashed "the prostitution of science for purposes of pure destruction.

Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.

when the role of dissenter is left to the Fool, there may be trouble ahead for everybody.

The music of my youth was much better Than the music of yours. So was the weather. ... Back then, people wrote gorgeous letters And read more poetry. So did the weather. ... Of all issues, there was only one dissenter, But we loved him, too. So did the weather. ... We were guitar-players and inventors Of minor chords and antibiotics. So was the weather. From Terminal Nostalgia

In Towcester he listened to Thomas Skinner. Skinner was a Dissenter called a Baptist. One of the ways Baptists differed from other denominations was that they did not believe infants should be baptized. They believed only a person who could make a mature judgment should be baptized. That ordinance about baptism was the source of their name. Thomas Skinner loaned Willy a book by Robert Hall called Help to Zion's Travellers.

He's the maverick of the firm, the one who breaks the rules.

I've always been in a rebel.

I've always been a bit of a rebel.

Without putting words in anybody's mouth, I think that Roddy has a reputation for being a rebel. I don't think that's a big secret.

I'm like a renegade and that rubs people wrong.

if she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger certainty, she knows that.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

I'm a chronicler of Negroland, a participant-observer, an elegist, dissenter, and admirer; sometime expatriate, ongoing interlocutor.

I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

I guess I was always an outsider and some kind of anarchist.

I don't want to be hip and cool. I don't want to play by the rules.

I'm as far outside of the mainstream political establishment as you can get.

The committee was divided, but it was divided 8–1, with the dissenter appointed by the Reagan White House.

While Galileo was a rebel, not all rebels are Galileo"—