#dissent

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. ↗

— Richard Perle

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It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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

— Mo Rocca

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

— Archibald MacLeish

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Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent. ↗

— Pete Seeger

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Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

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

— Natan Sharansky

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Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains. ↗