"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Dissent, Majority, Minority, Will

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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Dissent, May

"Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man."

Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist

Dissent, Doubt, Man, Trouble

"The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib."

Brit Hume, American Journalist

Dissent, Play, Struggle

"There is hope for you when your opinions are in opposition to those of the majority. Your brain mighty be working as it was meant to."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Dissent, Majority, Hope, Thinking, Life

"In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march."

Kate Chopin, American Author

Dissent, Feet, March

"In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy."

Learned Hand, American Judge

Dissent, End, Heresy, Risk

"A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Dissent, Heresy, Spring

"FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused to compromise on the issue of individual liberty."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

Dissent, Liberty, Defiance, Leadership, Conviction

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Dissent, Majority, Minority, Will

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

People

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Habit

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Evil

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

Man

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Body

"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

Man

"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil."

Society

"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."

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"It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay."

Philosophy

"We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves."

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