Quotes About Dissent

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

Dissent has been crushed, and freedom is a memory, all in the name of peace and order.

Tatiana had always thought she would not make a very good Communist. She liked Mikhail Zoshchenko's stories too much.

The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.

Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no." If we cannot say "no" then "yes" has no meaning

Typical case, educated way, way beyond her IQ, with ambition stronger than ability. She's just another cause fascist, son, and that's the worst kind; they always know they're right. Anyone who dissents for whatever reason is evil and an enemy, existing only to be crushed.

Don't worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We'll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink themselves stupid all night. And if worse comes to worst, well, we've got all the guns, haven't we?

and you're not a raving hothead about it like all the other hate-the-rich dissenter rabble.