You know the washing machine where you wash your shirt Well it’s the stick in the middle that does the work It tugs and it twists and it may be mean But it loosens the dirt, gets the shirt darn clean And they call that stick – an Agitator.
Dissent Quotes
This country always allows dissent if it’s not too dissentful.
You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. […]
As a matter of general principle, I believe that there can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. . . Too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think it will give some comfort to the enemy to know that […]
Although (Bertrand) Russell suffered unpopularity in some quarters for his role as a political dissenter, he enjoyed that role immensely. There was more than a touch of exhibitionism in the riskless sit-downs of his last years when he made well-publicized gestures to “Ban the Bomb” that were as futile as they were ill-advised. I once […]
There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don’t like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed… It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people… Society must take every means at its disposal to defend […]
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
One thing about Thoreau keeps him very near to me. I refer to his lawlessness – his dissent – his going his absolute own road, let hell blaze all it chooses.
It’s a fact of our culture that the loudest mouths get the most airplay, and the loudmouths are saying now that in times of crisis it is treasonous to question our leaders. Nonsense. That kind of thinking let fascism grow out of the international depression of the 1930s. In critical times, our leaders need most […]
The United States can… be proud that it has institutions and a structure that permit its citizens to express honest dissent, even though those who do so may be maligned by the highest official in the land.
