Dissenter's Quotes

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#2. Vampyre High Council. Wasn't clueing them in to that a little more important

P.C. Cast

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

Gary Taubes

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.

Sherman Alexie

#7. 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

#8. Infinite knowledge, infinite vision, infinite energy of the Soul is in the same state even today. The Soul has never been a sinner. The Soul is absolutely pure.

Dada Bhagwan

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

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.

Bill Maris

#13. 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

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

Edward Abbey

#15. I really need 5 hours of Facebook to balance out my 5 minutes of studying.

Thabang Gideon Magaola

#16. 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

#17. Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter

Rosa Luxemburg

#18. 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

#19. When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

David Amram

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

Saul Bellow

#21. I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

Barbara Kingsolver

#22. 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

#23. The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

Ludwig Von Mises

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

William Hazlitt

#25. I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.

Sean Bean