Dissent quotes

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◆ Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

- Albert Einstein100

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

- Natan Sharansky99

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

- Natan Sharansky99

◆ Discussion in America means dissent.

- James Thurber99

◆ It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

- Mo Rocca99

◆ If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

- George S Patton99

◆ Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

- Rosa Luxemburg99

◆ The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt99

◆ 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 Hoffer99

◆ Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

- Hubert H Humphrey99

◆ So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

- Jim Hightower99

◆ In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

- Charles Evans Hughes99

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

- William Hazlitt99

◆ May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

- Dwight D Eisenhower99

◆ Dissents speak to a future age.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg99