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  1. Gretchen Rubin _ The Four Tendencies: The

    As one Questioner pointed out, 'The Rebels' best asset is their voice of dissent. We shouldn't try to school it out of them, or to corporate-culture it out, or shame it out. It's there to protect us all.
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  2. Leo Tolstoy _ War and Peace

    Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.
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  3. Henry David Thoreau _ Civil Disobedience and Other

    If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
    book-quotedissent

  4. Chuck Palahniuk _ Rant

    Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.
    book-quotedissentconditioningsanta

  5. Euripides _ The Children of Herakles

    In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
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  6. Robert A. Heinlein _ Time Enough for Love

    A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
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  7. Salman Rushdie _ Joseph Anton: A Memoir

    When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood {or fell} because they were strong enough {or too weak} to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent.
    book-quotereligionreasonsatire

  8. Noam Chomsky _ Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on

    Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'-blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.
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