Quotes About Dissent

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

In war-time the word patriotism means suppression of truth.

Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore

A funeral was a thing they understood; dissent was something they did not.

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing.

Obloquy is, to most men, more painful than death; that is one reason why, in times of collective excitement, so few men venture to dissent from the prevailing opinion.

Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

I intend to be a candidate for those who want to vote against everyone.

En lo único que a primera vista todos estamos de acuerdo, es que no estamos de acuerdo con todos.

Nada tan admirable como arriesgarse a criticar a los que mandan y a los que matan

with competing claims apparent among groups such as the Diggers, Quakers, Ranters, Baptists, Muggletonians, and Fifth Monarchists

Gavin Chambers was at the window of his office high-rise in midtown, looking down at the "protestors"—a ragtag group of aging grunge-ola that probably numbered no more than twenty—mulling inside the building's courtyard

Repent, Harlequin, said the Ticktock Man. Get stuffed, the Harlequin replied.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

I say to the Occupy protesters - you're occupying the wrong place, you're protesting the wrong thing.