Quotes About Dissent

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Consider one of the most renowned interview questions of all time: "What is it you believe to be true that other smart people you know think is crazy?

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)

Abbott was running a one-man campaign to wreck his own organisation.

Don't worry so much! My skin's thick enough to put up with honestly expressed opinions, even from outsiders, however little I may care for them. And if I started using my security people to break heads or quash dissent, I'd only prove I was exactly what they say I am, now wouldn't I? The

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Across "the South" there was considerable dissent, which broke not on state, class, or occupational lines but on ethnoregional ones.

Sometimes people think you're smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock.

All the crushing might of an armed state is hurled against any man who refuses to accept the New Faith. At the same time, Stalinism attacks him from within, saying his opposition is caused by his "class consciousness", just as psychoanalysts accuse their foes of wanting to preserve their complexes.

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were fascists. Policemen who tangled with protesters were fascists - on and on.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

Nevertheless, there's still a dissenting voice, albeit a single one—mine