Quotes About Dissent

McCarthyite hysteria that had enveloped Washington. Equating dissent with disloyalty

There's a set of people who are intrinsic oppositionists to everything Google does.

People asked me during the Iraq war if I was afraid to speak out. I said no.

So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.

Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

The U.S. army is pretty terrible. Never join it!

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Silence is hereby outlawed. Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

One cannot write poems about trees when the forest is full of police.

When a group or community doesn't tolerate dissent and disagreement, it forgoes any experience of inextricable connection. There is no true belonging, only an unspoken treaty to hate the same people. This fuels our spiritual crisis of disconnection.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

If I really treated business like a businessman, I wouldn't have done what I have done - opposing China. No businessman in their right mind would do this because you know that there will be repercussions.

If a government is overreacting in this way and treating you as such a dangerous threat, then you know that you are doing your job.

Truth is an outlaw in every country.

Hegel believed that progress is ultimately furthered by the person who is out of step with the majority. Only this person, the genuine nonconformist, really experiences the constraints on freedom. Only this person is in the position of questioning the prevailing understandings of happiness. For

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

The time is now proper for us to reform backward; more by dissenting than by agreeing; by differing more than by consent.

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