Quotes About Public Dissent

#1. I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him. He's going to go ahead. And that's more frightening.

Seymour Hersh

#2. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.

Imam Ali

#3. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

#4. I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

Gabrielle Union

#5. What do you mean by sound government?'
Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the individual life.'
Then we haven't got sound government.

P.D. James

#6. What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.

America Ferrera

#7. Hey,you might be able to take away my magical powers, but the power of sarcasm was still at my disposal.

Rachel Hawkins

#8. Why would you think that?" "Perhaps because she is batshit crazy, Brooke." Jamie slow-clapped. "Jamie," Brooke said calmly. "I'm not sure that's productive." "I was applauding Mara for her extraordinary appropriate use of the term 'batshit crazy'.

Michelle Hodkin

#9. There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

Sam Harris

#10. Writing for me is never about quantity. It's always about quality.

Raymond Bolton

#11. I moved around a lot as a kid, and when you're always entering new places at that age, you kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.

Adam Pally

#12. Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#13. People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.

Ellen Pompeo

#14. If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

Bruce Sterling

#15. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

H.L. Mencken

#16. Just a spoon full of Jimmy helps the whole world go down!

Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan

#17. If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

Dave Barry

#19. You have left Your Beloved and are thinking of others:
and this is why your work is in vain.

Kabir

#20. If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

Terence McKenna