Quotes About Dissent

There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

It would be a tragedy for democracy if dissent goes away.

I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.

If you want to be wrong, then follow the masses.

Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.

The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church.

Truth is for the minority.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

punk rock as an alternative," he says, "a real attempt to change the social order of the world.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.

Very, very protesty. And, uh, one of the protestiest of all things I ever protested against in my protest years.

Let that analysis sink in: Twenty percent of the president's staff think they are "saving the world" from the president.

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

You blow up innocent people and get nuts to shoot cops. Get all the angry losers to burn cars in the streets. You're not saving anybody from anything.

Heretic ... is a person who seizes upon a truth and pushes it to the point at which it becomes a falsehood.

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

Although Cheney and a few other Republicans broke with the president and voted to impeach, most did not.