Top Dissent Quotes
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Natan Sharansky
Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
Jim Walton
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
Natan Sharansky
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Robert Jackson
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
Learned Hand
Mo Rocca 
George Henry Lewes 
Pete Seeger 
Friedrich Durrenmatt 
Barbara Ehrenreich 
Hubert H. Humphrey 
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Natan Sharansky 
63% of people like this quote
Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
Jim Walton
60% of people like this quote
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
Natan Sharansky
60% of people like this quote
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Robert Jackson
59% of people like this quote
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
Learned Hand
57% of people like this quote
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
John Charles Polanyi
55% of people like this quote
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
55% of people like this quote
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
Michael Servetus
54% of people like this quote
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