Dissent Quotes
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied, Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide, As if old Drums, worn out with martial din, Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual
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
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent rather than passive agreement; for if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself
Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years; But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist; And I doubt whether it will be a man