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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Dissent, May

"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

"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

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

Learned Hand, American Judge

Dissent, End, Heresy, Risk

"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

"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

"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

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

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Dissent, Heresy, Spring

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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

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"Anger is the prelude to courage."

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"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

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"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

"Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many."

"Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action."

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

"People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

"Anger is the prelude to courage."

"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."