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“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daughters of a given nation strive to emulate their leader's greatness. Only then will a nation be truly great, when a leader inspires and produces citizens worthy of becoming future leaders, honorable decision makers and peacemakers. And in these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.”
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“And then they started deleting the protest reviews.
That was my line. When they started to stamp out dissent, actually to make it disappear with virtually no excuse for doing so...that’s not neglect. That’s not an overwhelmed person or people trying to figure it out. That’s an entity that has decided that they do not care, that they have moved on from the issue, do not see it as an issue, and is trying to avoid bad press. Or they are too far down the line to backtrack on what they’ve been doing and save face. They’re content with their wildly inconsistent policy enough to no longer care what effect it is having on their user base.
If you try to silence dissent, then something is very, very wrong.”
― Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
That was my line. When they started to stamp out dissent, actually to make it disappear with virtually no excuse for doing so...that’s not neglect. That’s not an overwhelmed person or people trying to figure it out. That’s an entity that has decided that they do not care, that they have moved on from the issue, do not see it as an issue, and is trying to avoid bad press. Or they are too far down the line to backtrack on what they’ve been doing and save face. They’re content with their wildly inconsistent policy enough to no longer care what effect it is having on their user base.
If you try to silence dissent, then something is very, very wrong.”
― Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
“The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what's happening is just the opposite. The world over, non-violent resistance movements are being crushed and broken. If we do not respect and honour them, by default we privilege those who turn to violent means.”
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“The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.”
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“They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.”
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“The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.”
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“One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach for the lowest common denominator, and who sometimes succeed in finding it. This criticism would be effortless if there were no "people" waiting for just such an appeal. Any fool can lampoon a king or a bishop or a billionaire. A trifle more grit is required to face down a mob, or even a studio audience that has decided it knows what it wants and is entitled to get it. And the fact that kings and bishops and billionaires often have more say than most in forming appetites and emotions of the crowd is not irrelevant, either.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.”
― The Black Banner
― The Black Banner
“When the jabot with scalloped glass beads glitters flat against the top of RBG's black robe, it's bad news for liberals. That's her dissent collar.”
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
― Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be super-heresies, and Arians not onely divided from their Church, but also among themselves: for heads that are disposed unto Schisme...are naturally indisposed for a community, nor will ever be confined unto the order or oeconomy of one body; and therefore when they separate from others they knit but loosely among themselves; nor contented with a general breach or dichotomie with their Church, do subdivide and mince themselves almost into Atomes.”
― Religio Medici
― Religio Medici
“Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent.”
― No Place for Truth: or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?
― No Place for Truth: or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?
“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.”
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“The gramophone keeps reiterating a statement about life with which I do not agree.”
― Christopher and His Kind
― Christopher and His Kind
“I dispute the right of conservatives to be automatically complacent on these points. My own Marxist group took a consistently anti-Moscow line throughout the 'Cold War,' and was firm in its belief that that Soviet Union and its European empire could not last. Very few people believed that this was the case: The best known anti-Communist to advance the proposition was the great Robert Conquest, but he himself insists that part of the credit for such prescience goes to Orwell. More recently, a very exact prefiguration of the collapse of the USSR was offered by two German Marxists, one of them from the West (Hans Magnus Enzensberger) and one from the East (Rudolf Bahro, the accuracy of whose prediction was almost uncanny). I have never met an American conservative who has even heard of, let alone read, either of these authors.”
― Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
― Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“An Act of Dissent is simply a way of saying, 'No, I do not accept this and, as my silence may be construed as acquiescence, I would like to make a small gesture to indicate that you can all go fuck yourselves.”
― 100 Acts of Minor Dissent
― 100 Acts of Minor Dissent
“Ecologist Paul Ehrlich stressed that people who hold opposing opinions need to engage in open discussion with well-reasoned dissent. Positions should be questioned and criticized, not the people who hold them. Personal attacks preclude open discussion because, once someone is put on the defensive, fruitful exchanges are impossible, at least for the moment.”
― Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation
― Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed: The Fascinating Science of Animal Intelligence, Emotions, Friendship, and Conservation
“Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent”
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“— При царе было плохо! — воскликнул я.
— Да, вас теперь так в школах учат. А ты видел?
— Царь людей в тюрьмы сажал и в ссылки ссылал.
— Дурачок ты, дурачок, — сказал дед. — Людей сажают и ссылают во все времена. Ленин больше народу загубил, чем все цари до него. А уж того, что Сталин натворил — никаким царям, никаким кровопивцам не снилось. Были у нас и Грозные, и Петры, да такого Сталина Бог, видно, перед концом света на нас послал. Дожились до того, что самой тени своей боишься. Одни стукачи кругом, слова не скажи. Только одну «славу партии» можно кричать. Да милиция тебе штраф влепит, если флаг на ворота не прицепишь на их праздник да на их проклятущие выборы. С утра, чуть свет — уже тарабанят в окна: «К шести часам на выборы, все как один, всенародный праздник, стопроцентное голосование!» Ах, чтоб вы подавились моим голосованием! Сами себя выставляют, сами себя назначают, сами меж собой делят — а мне говорят, что это я их выбрал! Это ж кракамедия сплошная. Кто живет при советской власти? Кто горластый подлец. Разевает пасть: «Наш великий, гениальный, мудрый вождь, солнце ясное в небе, наша родная партия, под водительством!» Тра-та-та! За это и получает, и жрет, злыдень. Развели одних паразитов. Один работает, трое присматривают, шестеро караулят. Да жрут, как гусень, да в автомобилях разъезжают. Буржуев свергли — сами буржуями похлестче заделались. Благодетели!..
— От язык без костей, — испуганно сжалась бабка у печки. — Шо ты кричишь, на всю улицу слышно!
— Вот! Я ж говорю: мы привыкли уже только шепотом говорить. Пусть слышно! Я хочу хоть перед смертью в голос поговорить. Нет их власти больше, нету их ГПУ, драпанули распроклятые энкаведисты. Чтоб он сдох, тот Сталин! Чтоб она сдохла, их партия! Вот! И никто меня больше не арестует. Это ж я при проклятых буржуях последний раз мог в голос говорить. Двадцать лет, как воды в рот набрали [43—44].”
― Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel
— Да, вас теперь так в школах учат. А ты видел?
— Царь людей в тюрьмы сажал и в ссылки ссылал.
— Дурачок ты, дурачок, — сказал дед. — Людей сажают и ссылают во все времена. Ленин больше народу загубил, чем все цари до него. А уж того, что Сталин натворил — никаким царям, никаким кровопивцам не снилось. Были у нас и Грозные, и Петры, да такого Сталина Бог, видно, перед концом света на нас послал. Дожились до того, что самой тени своей боишься. Одни стукачи кругом, слова не скажи. Только одну «славу партии» можно кричать. Да милиция тебе штраф влепит, если флаг на ворота не прицепишь на их праздник да на их проклятущие выборы. С утра, чуть свет — уже тарабанят в окна: «К шести часам на выборы, все как один, всенародный праздник, стопроцентное голосование!» Ах, чтоб вы подавились моим голосованием! Сами себя выставляют, сами себя назначают, сами меж собой делят — а мне говорят, что это я их выбрал! Это ж кракамедия сплошная. Кто живет при советской власти? Кто горластый подлец. Разевает пасть: «Наш великий, гениальный, мудрый вождь, солнце ясное в небе, наша родная партия, под водительством!» Тра-та-та! За это и получает, и жрет, злыдень. Развели одних паразитов. Один работает, трое присматривают, шестеро караулят. Да жрут, как гусень, да в автомобилях разъезжают. Буржуев свергли — сами буржуями похлестче заделались. Благодетели!..
— От язык без костей, — испуганно сжалась бабка у печки. — Шо ты кричишь, на всю улицу слышно!
— Вот! Я ж говорю: мы привыкли уже только шепотом говорить. Пусть слышно! Я хочу хоть перед смертью в голос поговорить. Нет их власти больше, нету их ГПУ, драпанули распроклятые энкаведисты. Чтоб он сдох, тот Сталин! Чтоб она сдохла, их партия! Вот! И никто меня больше не арестует. Это ж я при проклятых буржуях последний раз мог в голос говорить. Двадцать лет, как воды в рот набрали [43—44].”
― Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel
“Perhaps why I am so uniquely terrible is simply that I represent total Dissent. Total Dissent. T.D. 19 + 4 = 23.”
― Last Words: The Final Journals
― Last Words: The Final Journals
“People weren't just angry about it. They were still afraid. Fear is a powerful, often irrational emotion, and mass fear... has the power to shake any society to its core. As long as the world remembered, they would live in fear of all cryptids-- regardless of whether or not any individual among us was truly dangerous.
Of course, not everyone supported stripping cryptids of all right. But dissenters were few among a dangerous and violent many, and most ignored the problem.
Submission was the only solution they could conceive of to fix my problem. But with the imprint of Clyde's fist still throbbing in my stomach I was less interested in fixing a problem than in becoming one.”
― Menagerie
Of course, not everyone supported stripping cryptids of all right. But dissenters were few among a dangerous and violent many, and most ignored the problem.
Submission was the only solution they could conceive of to fix my problem. But with the imprint of Clyde's fist still throbbing in my stomach I was less interested in fixing a problem than in becoming one.”
― Menagerie
“Inside accounts of Presidential advisory groups make it clear that the failure to express dissent can have direct, immediate, and severe consequences...Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy scrutiny and debate. The absence of such argument also leads us to exaggerate the extent to which other people believe the way we do. Bolstered by such a false sense of social support, our beliefs strike us as more resistant to subsequent logical and empirical challenge.”
― How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
― How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
“Informed and rationally articulated dissent contributes to growth of ideas. Uniformed dissent, expressed through lung power, is a sign of insecurity. Countering dissent with fortification leads to a siege mentality. It results in a stagnant society, devoid of organic growth. Such a society perceives itself to be so fragile that every whiff of fresh air is seen as a threat to its existence.”
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“Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent.”
― Demonspawn
― Demonspawn
“Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.”
― Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
― Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
“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.”
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“The message of such silence is simple: "we the people" will no longer conspire in supporting the illusions that help corrupt leaders maintain control. By withholding our cheers and falling into silence, we take a small step toward withdrawing the consent that helps maintain abusive power. We no longer affirm, or pretend to affirm, that the national flags and religious symbols in which corrupt leaders wrap themselves have any meaning -- except as an implicit judgment on the duplicity of those leaders.”
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