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«No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
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«May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| Keywords:
confuse, disloyal, dissent, dissenting, dissents, subversion, subversions
«The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
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«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
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«The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Silence
| Keywords:
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«There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| Keywords:
controlled, dissent, police, police state, responsive, restructure, restructuring, rigidly, suppressed
«The dissent we witness is a reaffirmation of faith in man; it is protest against living under rules and prejudices and attitudes that produce the extremes of wealth and poverty and that make us dedicated to the destruction of people through arms, bombs, and gases, and that prepare us to think alike and be submissive objects for the regime of the computer.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
| Keywords:
against the rules, bombs, dedicated, dissent, extremes, extreme poverty, gases, protest, reaffirmation, regime, submissive
«The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Principles,
Protestantism,
Religion
| Keywords:
colonies, colony, dissent, dissidence, Northern, prevalent, Protestant, Protestantism, Protestants, refinement, refinements, the colonies
«The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
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«It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
common mistake, Common Speech, disloyalty, dissent, misjudge, public policy, regimes
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