Quotes About Dissent

The outlandish 2000 election and Bush's victory had come along at the perfect time, helping Stewart, the correspondents, and the writers sharpen The Daily Show's tone of bemused mockery. The next world-changing events would have just as big an effect—and a late-night, basic cable comedy show would become an unlikely outlet for mourning, an antidote to anxiety, and gradually a center of principled, patriotic dissent.

Some of my colleagues…acknowledge that the earth is warming, but insist that such warming (and cooling) is nothing unusual, and it's not catastrophic. The end result is that the skeptics tend to be tolerant of dispute and dissent because we do not necessarily agree among ourselves. The believers are not only intolerant of dissent—they are convinced that all skeptics must be motivated by greed or other evil forces….

The future is a fight against a model of reality that is a monopoly, controlled by the powerful and formidably defended against dissent.

Ted shows me his school composition, a rewrite of Snow White from the point of view of the dwarves: 'So you think we liked Snow White? You are completely WRONG.

The minority is always right.

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

Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.

Revolutions are always verbose.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

Lactose intolerant milk?! KISS, MY, DICK!

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.

I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

There is no doubt that dissents can serve a useful role by explaining when a justice thinks the majority has gone off the deep end. But unanimity also sends its own powerful message - one that might be eclipsed in the headlines by a sensational dissent but could ultimately have a greater impact.

Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.

He began to understand that just because some people thought certain behavior was wrong, that didn't make it so. A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there might be consequences, not everything would be necessarily lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

I have trouble applying the 'whistle-blower' label to someone who just disagrees with the way our country is structured and operates.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,' but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

Not every opposition party believes the same thing.

The real legacy of Atal Bihari Vajpayee lies in the politics of opposition. The politics of opposition is the politics of dissent. From 1957 to 1996, he dedicated his life to exactly that.