Quotes About Dissidence

#1. Okay, so I'm not exactly a morning person, but first impressions should never have to be made before dawn.

Jamie Canosa

#2. That old man ... had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

George Pickett

#3. I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

Ziggy Marley

#4. I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.

Lynne Stewart

#5. He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.

Robin McKinley

#6. You had your chance tonight, babe. And you got to your knees beside me. There's no turning back. You can't give me that, all of that, and take it away. You need to get this, baby, and right now I need to know you do.

Kristen Ashley

#7. Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

Michael D. Higgins

#8. The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

Muhammad Ali

#9. When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

LaMarr Woodley

#10. Their methods were especially crude and most of these former friends were now born again model citizens; lobotomized; or burnt out shells.

H.M. Forester

#11. Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.

Baker Brownell

#12. Fulfill your pride in your brand! Brand your uniqueness with a sophisticated personality.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#13. The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Edmund Burke

#14. It was Crabcalf who, surrounded and walled in by the hundreds of unsold copies of his ill-fated novel, felt that he if anyone should be the judge not only of literature, but all that went on behind the sordid scenes.

Mervyn Peake

#15. If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will? ...

Saint Francis De Sales

#16. The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

Igor Stravinsky

#17. It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.

Louise Gluck

#18. All you had to do was crack up and beg to see the Governor; grovel at his feet and admit to being a dissident; heartily repent your sins, and volunteer for elective brain surgery.

H.M. Forester

#19. My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

Alva Myrdal

#20. This cognitive dissidence causes people to create conspiracy theories, like the ones above, to change facts to match their beliefs, rather than changing their beliefs to match facts.

Bo Bennett

#21. All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

Learned Hand

#22. Connor hands shiny black guns to both me and Peter.
I'm pretty sure that if the best description of the weapon I can come up with is black and shiny, then I probably shouldn't be handling it.

Jamie Canosa

#23. They ordered the extermination
of all minds they couldn't control

Tupac Shakur