Quotes About Dissent

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Any religion, meanwhile, has its heretics, and global warming is no exception.

Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote a strong dissent, making the crucial point that the majority's ruling meant that no one ever could sue to stop even the most outrageous of police practices.

The law is immoral.

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

Rhode Island, a colony that the mainstream Puritans denounced as "a cesspool of vile heresies and irreligion

Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

Sitting and sedition don't mix.

When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

It ensured that I'd never think that patriotism and dissent were opposites.

I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly true, too.

So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

As one Questioner pointed out, 'The Rebels' best asset is their voice of dissent. We shouldn't try to school it out of them, or to corporate-culture it out, or shame it out. It's there to protect us all.

To fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else. (writing of public education in the April 1924 The American Mercury )

The writer, indeed every real artist, was the devil, rivalling God in creativity, trying even to surpass him. God was surely man's most fatal creation, the devil's kitsch bitch. It was God, with his insistence on being worshipped and admired, who made the argument of art necessary, keeping the fire of dissent alive in men and women. This dissident was the artist, who spanned with his imagination reason and unreason, the under and the over, the dream and the world, men and women.

Men have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to face their implacable frenzy without weapons and with folded arms to dare a no when a yes is demanded. Such a man was Zola!

The totalitarian state lets its opponents disappear in silent anonymity. It is certain that anyone who had dared to suffer death rahter than silently tolerate the crime would have sacrificied his life in vain.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor, Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.