#dissent

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#born #bred #dissenter #hard #honest

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#debate #discussion #dissent #freedom #hammered

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

— Richard Perle

#difference #dissent #eager #lose #may

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

— Harold Pinter

#easy #mocked #propaganda #work

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

#been #centuries #dissent #down #establishments

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

#ago #america #ancestors #came #dissenters

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#freethought #love

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#conditioning #dissent #santa #anarchy

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#inspirational #science-fiction #inspirational

If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#inspiration #self-expression #inspirational