115 Quotes About Dissent

As in many insecure states, in Pakistan the line between preventing the nation’s enemies from causing it harm and declaring everyone who disagrees with the government an enemy of the nation was blurred.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

খেলার বাইরেবেটা কবি ! লাথি মেরে বের করে দাও।এখানে ওর কোনি কাজ নেই ।ও খেলতে জানে না । ও কখনও উত্তেজিত হয় নাকিংবা স্পষ্ট করে কথা বলে ।ও এমনকি অলৌকিক ব্যাপার দেখতে পায় না ।

У меня была бабушка, она советскую власть не любила. Когда мне было 14 лет, я учился в Запорожском ремесленном училище. И я спросил у бабушки: «А что ты думаешь про Сталина?» Она сказала: «Я думаю, что он бандит». Я очень обрадовался, потому что я тоже так думал, но боялся кому-нибудь сказать. Когда я узнал, что моя бабушка — единомышленница, это меня порадовало. При этом понимал, что этими мыслями ни с кем, кроме бабушки, делиться нельзя.

Now I think that a true liberal will always prioritize individuals over the group, will always prioritize heresy over orthodoxy, will always prioritize the dissenting voice over the status quo.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

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

They fought about politics. Angelica's husband has ironclad ideas and doesn't like them to be questioned.' 'If they were really ironclad he wouldn't mind discussing them. If he gets that angry, it means his ideas are more like cheese than iron.' (Happiness, As Such)