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

Discussion in America means dissent.
James Thurber

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn

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

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
Pete Seeger

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
Natan Sharansky

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Jacob Bronowski

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
James W. Fulbright

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Natan Sharansky

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

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
Mo Rocca

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Harold Pinter

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
Michael Servetus

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
Natan Sharansky

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
John Charles Polanyi