Top 315 Dissent Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
That's what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends - ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance.
It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
I don't want our right to be able to speak and dissent to be taken away.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.
Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.
Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
I announced my dissent in the Citizens United orally, and I stumbled in my announcement. I had a little difficulty expressing myself. And that was out of character.
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.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.
MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.
It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent
Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and I intend to continue to push my country to respect the rights of all its citizens. I will not be silenced.
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
The United States' flag should only fly in Cuba when the island is free, when dissent is embraced, and when democracy is restored.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.
growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.
Only when emotion is involved do you get angry and lose your temper. You could have different points of view, but as long as it is constructive dissent, it is fun.
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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.
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.
Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.
Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get punished.
Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.
During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.'
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution.
