Dissenter Quotes

#1. Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. To be a dissenter was to be unfunded because the peer-review system rewards conformity and excludes criticism,

Gary Taubes

#3. What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. If she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger certainty, she knows that.

Michel Faber

#5. If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion and the ruler of the province or the region was Lutheran, to stay a Catholic, you either had to be a dissenter or you had to leave.

Susan Jacoby

#6. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#7. Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#8. The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Archibald MacLeish

#9. A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

George MacDonald

#10. Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

Edward Abbey

#11. The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

H.W. Brands

#12. Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter

Rosa Luxemburg

#13. Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Ken Kesey

#14. How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

Saul Bellow

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

William Hazlitt

#16. If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe
without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.

H.L. Mencken

#17. The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.

Jenson Button

#18. I'd die for him! And he would. Say the word, there's Tate Walker, lying down in traffic and throwing his worthless life away so someone as good as Brian could cross the street.

Amy Lane

#19. Sometimes the nastiest shit happens behind the prettiest doors, while everyone laughs and smiles and pretends everything's okay. Here's the thing about my world. We're fucked up. We own it. We take care of business and move on.

Joanna Wylde

#20. This scripture is saying that you will always have bread and water on your table

Sunday Adelaja

#21. My mission of life is to entertain people; same I get entertain from some others life missions.

Wiz Khalifa

#22. I like pessimists. They're always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

Lisa Kleypas

#23. If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood!

Eda LeShan

#24. I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

Barry White

#25. Larry Bird is like a basketball god to me for what he's done for my career.

Jalen Rose

#26. You can't applaud a referee.

Alex Ferguson