Quotes About Dissent

One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

I was one of those students that would protest and think the unrest will help create a revolution.

Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence community. Their presence - or even the rejection - of their favored positions is not prima face evidence of politicization.

When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S. government unwind into chaos through hardcore punk and metal.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for 'Running off to Canada.'

That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.

You'll never even catch me doing that 'soft atheist' thing of very softly singing along or just mouthing the words, looking down at a hymn sheet every few seconds to check the words. To state the obvious, as an atheist, the hymn sheet is no use to me. So I just stand there, looking straight ahead or up at the ceiling, and do nothing.

question authority

The way to do away with war is for those who do not want war, who regard participation in it a sin, to refrain from fighting.

There are always people who are doing things that don't fit the official accounts.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

Letter to a Christian Nation.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

Houllier couldn't deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. —HUBERT H. HUMPHREY

In fact, the flashy, antiauthoritarian vaulters were suspiciously regarded, often with reason, by the coaches and their more loyal athletes as Thoreau-reading, dope-smoking, John Carlos–loving hippies.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Like any dissidents they were neurotic archivists. Agree, disagree, show no interest in or obsess over their narrative of history, you couldn't say their didn't shore it up with footnotes and research.

Beware the soul-sucking force of reasonableness