Quotes About Dissent

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

There is a need today for what I call prophetic simplicity. We need voices of dissent that point to another way, creative models that take exception to the givens of society.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

What do you expect us to do, gospazha? Throw rocks at Warden?" Wyoh smiled. "Yes, we could throw rocks.

Prof. Marcello Truzzi, sociologist, from Eastern Michigan University, was editor of the CSICOP journal when it was called the Zetetic. He had a difference of opinion with the Executive Council about whether dissenting views should be published. He says CSICOP isn't skeptical at all in the true meaning of that word but is an advocacy body upholding orthodox establishment views. In other words, their alleged skepticism has become, as my paradox suggests, just another dogmatic blind faith.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Who rebels with mathematics?

At this point we need them to feel disliked and outnumbered. Hell, mass numbers of people in the streets are about the only thing that scare governments, if you ask me.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!

We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!

While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.