Quotes About Dissent

It was easier to live under a regime than to fight it. But

The best thing about religion is that it makes for heretics.

Speech is one of the few abilities that human beings share across all creeds, faiths, races, and ethnicities. By nature, it connects us, it strengthens us, and it empowers us. Speech as affirmation or as dissent should be cherished and respected.

How few men are strong enough to stand against the prevailing currents of opinion!

If the majority view, whether in government or in the scientific establishment, is wrong, toleration of dissent increases the odds that their errors will eventually be discovered. But even if the majority view is correct, as it often may be, it is more likely to be seen to be correct if it must defend itself against critics.

If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.

To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

Everybody handles protesters differently.

I'm sure that I'd be able to find a lot to disagree on with Eliot Engel.

Our party is united. At times, some people may have disagreements and leave, but it is not a big issue.

I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.

Discussion in America means dissent.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.

I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!

The fact is that Democrats cannot stand dissent.

Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees.

Only when emotion is involved do you get angry and lose your temper. You could have different points of view, but as long as it is constructive dissent, it is fun.

People rarely like the humanitarian plans of their social superiors.

You had just read one of Tom Hess's discourses on how Newman's vertical zip was Adam, or the primal act of division of light from darkness, or the figure of the unnamable Yahweh himself. How could you disagree? On what could you base your trivial act of colonial dissent? A mere reproduction, two inches by three? But Yahweh doesn't show his face in reproductions. He shows it only in paintings.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.