Dissent Quotes

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC o...

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what...

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they thin...

Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we ar...

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can s...

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative pote...

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had...

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the pe...

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Isra...

What do you mean by sound government?'Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from ...

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep p...

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessari...

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time a...

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it fa...

But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare ...

Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for t...

When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? Wh...

To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones hold...

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other pu...

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other pu...

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying...

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I w...

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your...

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle w...

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to p...

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around ...

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jest...

My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less ...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...

Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I w...

I dispute the right of conservatives to be automatically complacent on these points. My own Marxist ...

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by th...

One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and ho...

One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach ...

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-...

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open bo...

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the lo...

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; eve...

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of ...

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pis...

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elep...

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existen...

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agita...

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without p...

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than a...

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single i...

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American be...