Quotes About Dissent

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he advocated limiting the reach of the landmark 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying certain parenting rights to same-sex couples.

In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

This is America. Dissenting voices will continue to voice their dissent. Because they've read the operating instructions for the United States of America, and it's their right.

'Pump Up the Volume' was a film and character that I really responded to. That was a movie about a guy trying to take down the establishment using a ham radio. I feel 'Mr. Robot' has a similar value. This show is about taking down a global empire. I was an anarchist then. I'm getting to be an anarchist again.

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

Many people voted for Trump just to say, you know, their 'no' to the system.

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

If you can bring dissent and disagreement to a common understanding of what the decision is all about, you create unity in action, and in all things trust. And trust requires that dissent come out into the open, and that it be seen as disagreement.

Dissenting opinions are useful, even when they are wrong.

In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

I am not bothered what people say. You have always different opinions.

Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.

I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.

Usually, boycotts sometimes don't really accomplish anything besides the fact that you show you that don't agree with what's going on.

Nate Diaz sucks.

Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.

She was brought up in the reformed Protestant Church but left it at the age of seventeen in protest against its restrictive rules.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.