Dissent Quotes

We must dissent from the fear.

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Dissent without action is consent.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.

When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.

The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

In a dead religion there are no more heresies.

Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is.

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.