Quotes on “dissent”

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.