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Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a rebel. ...And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ... GREATNESS.

Nicholas Tharcher

Stichwörter: philosophy dissent metaphysics independent-thought

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

Albert Einstein

Stichwörter: acquiescence activism remaining-silent dissent protest consent duty

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Stichwörter: science dissent reasoning independent-thought scientific-method truth-telling

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Desmond Tutu

Stichwörter: courage dissent moral-courage protest bullying neutrality

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

Stichwörter: dissent freedom-of-speech truth-telling

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

Stichwörter: dissent freedom-of-thought skepticism independent-thought

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]

Harry Truman

Stichwörter: politics dissent censorship freedom-of-speech opposition repression

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Richard Dawkins

Stichwörter: truth dissent opinion