Quotes About Dissent

It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

The Blue Church does not allow dissent. Questions or curiosity about alternative viewpoints are met with humiliation and ejection.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime." Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values

Freedom is valued in a culture that wants to encourage dissent and to stimulate originality and independence. It belongs to a society which is open to change, and which esteems the agent of change, the individual, above its own peace of mind.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.

Sadly, dissent nowadays is considered unpatriotic, and in our post-9/11 atmosphere any criticism of those in uniform, any uniform, is stifled. Being labeled soft on crime or soft on terror is a politician's curse.

Sadly, dissent nowadays is considered unpatriotic, and in our post-9/11 atmosphere any criticism of those in uniform, any uniform, is stifled. Being labeled soft on crime or soft on terror is a politician's curse. I'm

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

for the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the other side),

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

We must dissent from the fear.