Quotes About Dissent

I think it's important to rebel a little bit.

It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.

If everybody was a bank clerk, then I would be a rebel. But if everyone was a rebel, then I promise you I would go out of my way to be a bank clerk.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

I don't want to follow the herd.

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Thoughtcrime, they called it.

Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four.

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.

Falls Freiheit überhaupt irgendetwas bedeutet, dann bedeutet sie das Recht darauf, den Leuten das zu sagen, was sie nicht hören wollen.

The heresy of heresies was common sense. And

In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

El ataque directo y consciente contra la honradez intelectual procede de los propios intelectuales.

Freedom is freedom to say that two plus two is four

Just because a lot of people are saying the same thing loudly over and over, doesn't mean it's true.

Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

I don't toe the party line all the time.

A heretic can be tolerated. But a heresy cannot.