Stifles Dissent Quotes

#1. Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if society makes its dishonest minority too small, it stifles dissent as well as common crime.

Bruce Schneier

#2. I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

Nathalie Kelley

#3. Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

Christina Westover

#4. That was not even ten years ago, it might have been six or seven years ago, and if anyone had told her that she would be standing here now listening to this song and all the things that had happened between then and now, she would not have believed them.

Colm Toibin

#5. You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her. Every gift she gives, every tree, every stalk of grain, costs her. Only if you repay your debts will she continue to provide.

Morgan Llywelyn

#6. Even though I was death, she took the time to resuscitate me. She breathed life back into my soul. She brought me back from the shadows.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#7. I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I ... I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not ... for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.

Sarah J. Maas

#8. When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.

Chellie Pingree