Dissent Quotes

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Women Men Men And Women Confuse Dissent Dare Spirit Never Doctrine Accepted Blood America May Subversion Disloyal Heirs Who Descended Rebels Here Honest
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. Edward R. Murrow
Soul Confuse Think Dissent Must Opposition America Dies Loyal
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom Debate Dissent Out Hammered Discussion Anvil
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. Barbara Ehrenreich
Patriotism Rebellion Matter Duty Too Dissent All-Around Remain True Scoundrels Often Refuge Patriots
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all. Ferdinand Marcos
Reality Dictatorship Language Dissent Unpunished Allowed Insult Go Malevolent
A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest. Antonin Scalia
Good You Dissent Keeps Honest
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. Eric Hoffer
Will Minority Free Dissent Only Feels Most Majority Impose
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. J. William Fulbright
Politics Faith Democracy Dissent Act
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. Robert Jackson
Dissent Those Unanimity Find Only Compulsory Soon Opinion Begin Achieves Unification Themselves Who Coercive Graveyard Elimination
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. Gore Vidal
World First Country Dissent Corporate States Entirely Objectivity First World Opinion Western Western World Wonders Grip Much Less Media United Ever United States Eliminate
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society. Natan Sharansky
Fear Will Free Free Society Society Dissent Determine Answer Permitted Question Whether
Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent. Camille Paglia
Women Long Feminism Too Dissent Way Tried Voices Absolutely Suppress Dead Movement Room
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy. Harry Belafonte
Democracy Dissent Any Central Bring
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. Jacob Bronowski
Good Man Will Trouble Doubt Dissent Be A Man Him Deal Got Scientist Years Off Left Native Whether Cut Good Deal Activity Last
Discussion in America means dissent. James Thurber
Dissent Discussion America Means
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. John Lindsay
Business Respect People Men Long Power Country Believe Dissent Voice Support Ready Quiet America Done Repression Cannot Turmoil Who Now Cope Suit
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent. Adam Grant
You People Dissent Run Risk Hire Originals
The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive. Alec Baldwin
You Own Dissent Say Married Someone Had Abuse Opinion Were Your Whom Thing
Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it. Amal Clooney
Dissent Locking Does Reduce Up Fosters
With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes. Ava DuVernay
Saying You Humanity People Matter Focus Black Community Dissent Hoping Folks Inside About Outside Protest Go Lot Same Movement Public Dismantle Really Means Notion Homes Lives
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent. Bill Keller
Discipline Thrive Dissent Liberation Punish Deviation Operating Suspicion Movements
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society. David Harsanyi
You Free Free Society Society Dissent About Importance Hear Lecture Left Often
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. Don Tapscott
Government Business Rebellion Internet Dissent Collaboration Cost Costs Drops Also Insurrection Just Transaction Even
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Dissent Claim Rightful Individual Existential Right
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. George Henry Lewes
Truth Man Law Dissent See No Law Generally Animosity Fails Announcing Him Accepted His Provoke Certain Views Compelling
Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy. Greg Gutfeld
Politics Bullying Justice Arrogant Dissent Punish Intolerant Division Reminded Terms Identity Insufferable Cultivated Years Trump Movement Anyone Unhappiness Social Them Social Justice Used Warriors Who Daddy Last Two Dissatisfaction
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