Quotes About Dissent

I want to fight the McCarthyist state that's developing in this country so my kids won't live in a world where people are afraid to speak out.

The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

Steve Jobs is considered an amazing genius and made billions of dollars. Sure, we overlook that he didn't pay his share of taxes and didn't believe in charity. But other than these occasional rumblings of dissent, he is pretty much held in high esteem.

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman ] Still, it's worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle- blower had resisted two of the most powerful institutions - church and army, both. He is an atheist, 'And I have been against all of these wars ever since.

So was his intolerance of dissenting opinions.

He remembered a line of graffiti scrawled by White Rose on a wall near Werderscher Markt: 'A police state is a country run by criminals'.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

Thorough, adamant and uncompromising privatization of all concerns has been the main factor that has rendered postmodern society so spectacularly immune to systemic critique and radical social dissent with revolutionary potential.

Never at my best when at my best behaviour.

The establishment's reply is that dissenting students are bent, not on positive innovation, but on negative disruption. Against this, however, it can be argued that these two processes are very closely related and that the former only degenerates into the latter when it finds itself blocked.

Nah you didn't

Not everything that matters can be quantified. What is tested may ultimately be less important than what is untested, such as a student's ability to seek alternative explanations, to raise questions, to pursue knowledge on his own, and to think differently. If we do not treasure our individualists, we will lose the spirit of innovation, inquiry, imagination, and dissent that has contributed powerfully to the success of our society in many different fields of endeavor.

For you, being patriotic may mean protesting against an unjust war and being willing to go to jail to save your country from a costly mistake. Which one of us is patriotic? Both of us. We just think differently about what is best for the country. And the reason we think differently is because each of us is operating under a different framework,

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

The mechanisms of dissent differed in each society, but internal unrest threatened the leadership in nearly every country-including China.

Love permits and even respects dissent: Authoritarianism does not. Everybody should learn the difference.

I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there.

Heresy is the foe of countenance

That's the way our friends the anarchists talk. Whenever things get really bad they want to set fire to something and to die.