An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma GandhiMots clés dissent political civil-disobedience
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I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
George CarlinMots clés humor patriotism dissent freedom-of-thought
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. HeinleinMots clés society dissent censorship trouble suppression
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
Albert EinsteinMots clés science dissent independent-thought
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth
Albert EinsteinMots clés dissent independent-thought
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Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent phenomenon but at other times and places the ends have been racial or territorial security, support of a dynasty or regime, and particular plans for saving souls. As first and moderate methods to attain unity have failed, those bent on its accomplishment must resort to an ever-increasing severity. . . . Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
It seems trite but necessary to say that the First Amendment to our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings. There is no mysticism in the American concept of the State or of the nature or origin of its authority. We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
Mots clés freedom nationalism democracy america united-states usa dissent government first-amendment thoughts united-states-of-america barnette supreme-court unanimity us
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
Emma GoldmanMots clés dissent protest independent-thought
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick DouglassMots clés power activism dissent rights radicalism agitation liberties
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt CobainMots clés inspirational activism dissent protest truth-telling
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.
Mots clés dissent anarchy conditioning santa
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