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"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."

Bronowski, Jacob on dissent
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"I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

Byron, Lord on dissent
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"Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- ."

Dickinson, Emily on dissent
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"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."

Dworkin, Andrea on dissent    Share

"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on dissent
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"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects."

Fulbright, J. William on dissent    Share

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

Hazlitt, William on dissent    Share

"Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder."

Hoffer, Eric on dissent    Share

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

Hoffer, Eric on dissent    Share

"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."

Macleish, Archibald on dissent    Share

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

Mill, John Stuart on dissent
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"To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless."

Steiner, George on dissent    Share

"Discussion in America means dissent."

Thurber, James on dissent    Share

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves."

Walker, Alice on dissent
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