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Quotes about Dissent

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
- Mark Twain
Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted
- Numbers 16:1
They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”
- Numbers 16:3
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
- Virginia Woolf
Most recently, in order to quell dissent, the progressives are implementing a chilling policy of national surveillance and selective prosecution—using the power of the police to harass and subdue their opposition.
- Dinesh D'Souza
There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
No one ever got radicalized by being grateful.
- Gloria Steinem
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution.
- Ken Ham
Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.
- Hugh Latimer
Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.
- Spiro Agnew
The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church.
- St. Augustine