Quotes About Dissent

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.

The righteous will claim sole domain on judgement. The righteous are the first to make hands into fists, the first to shout down dissenters, the first to bully others into compliance.

Yes, gather your disaffected, ignorant fools, then. Fill their heads with the noble glory of a non-existent past, then send them out with their eyes blazing in stupid - but comforting - fervor. And this will begin our new golden age, an exultation in the pleasures of repression and tyrannical control over the lives of everyone. Hail the mighty Errant, the god who brooks no dissent.

Now that's a laugh, isn't it? The most deadly seducers are the ones encouraging conformity. If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward…not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

Anti-vaccination movements are high-pressure, highly conformist organizations in which dissenting views are discouraged. To the extent that people reject science because they wish to present a self-image as critical and skeptical, it can be useful to communicate to them the inherently skeptical nature of science and to portray antiscientific thinking as an example of unthinking conformity (Hornsey & Fielding, 2017).

Good girls would certainly not want to read about them.

It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken, the governments aren't protecting us and it's down to us now.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.

Ona protests, quietly, that she doesn't believe that at all. She doesn't believe in authority, period, because authority makes people cruel. Salome interrupts: The people with authority or the people without?

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Ah, McAllister laughed, free thinkers at seventeen!

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Janis believed that groups are especially likely to suffer from groupthink if they are cohesive, have highly directive leadership, and are insulated from experts.

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

Power suppresses creativity and productivity; it is hazardous to the health and well-being of both the controller and the controllee. Power generates the forces that will inevitably destroy or replace it; power bites its own tail; it stifles creative dissent; it extinguishes trust, fellowship, intimacy, and love; power entraps the controller as it enslaves the controllee.

No matter how the official narrative of this turns out there are the places we should be looking, not in newspapers or television but at the margins, graffiti, uncontrolled utterances, bad dreamers who sleep in public and scream in their sleep.

if you just go along with what everybody else thinks, if you confuse popular consensus for an honest research process, you' re setting yourself up for failure.

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.