Quotes About Dissent

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right

A minority may be right; a majority is always wrong.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

John the Baptist pretending to be Karl Marx.

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.

People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

Dissents speak to a future age.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.

One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

Institutionalizing dissent in our agencies moves us toward a healthier democracy and helps fulfill our founders' vision.