Top Dissent Quotes

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

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in r...

Dissent Definition

(v. i.) To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

(v. i.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.

(v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.

(n.) The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.

(n.) Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity.

(n.) Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality.

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculi...

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent p...

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

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the r...

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

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

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

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged...

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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

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

Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike the Iran we know today, and for that we can thank the Green Movement, not another...

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a sourc...