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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 · Dissent · 1 fans >>
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"I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

Byron, Lord · Dissent · 2 fans >>
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"Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- ."

Dickinson, Emily · Dissent · 2 fans >>
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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 · Dissent · 2 fans >>
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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. · Dissent · 1 fans >>
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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 · Dissent · 1 fans >>
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"I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself."

Gramsci, Antonio · Dissent · 1 fans >>
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"You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society."

Havel, Vaclav · Dissent · 1 fans >>
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"It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter."

Hazlitt, William · Dissent · 0 fans >>
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"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 · Dissent · 0 fans >>
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