Quotes About Dissent

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter (Freheit ist immer die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden)

A complaint can be how you live with yourself because a complaint is an attempt to address what is wrong, not to cope with something, not to let it happen, not to let it keep happening. You refuse to adjust to what is unjust. A complaint can be a way of not doing nothing. I think the double negative is often the terrain of complaint

diversity management" becomes a way of managing or containing conflict or dissent.

The groundswell of outrage over the invasion of Iraq often cited the preemptive war as a betrayal of American ideals. The subtext of the dissent was: 'This is not who we are.' But not if you were standing where I was. It was hard to see the look in that palace tour guide's eyes when she talked about the American flag flying over the palace and not realize that ever since 1898, from time to time, this is exactly who we are.

Protestantism's evolution away from hierarchy and authority has enormous consequences for America and the world. On the one hand, the democratization of religion runs parallel to political democratization. The king of England, questioning the pope, inspires English subjects to question the king and his Anglican bishops. Such dissent is backed up by a Bible full of handy Scripture arguing for arguing with one's kIng. This is the root of self-government in the English-speaking world.

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Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so."Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

All great art is a form of complaint

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

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That's the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.

People afterward told him that it had taken courage to say what he thought. Not at all, he responded; it takes courage in the Soviet Union or in South Africa to say what one thinks, not in the United States.

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.