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Letter "D" » dissents
«No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Patriot
«Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.»
«We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.»
«Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
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Vice President)
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«Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.»
«If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.»
Author: Joseph Goebbels
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About:
Politics,
Propaganda,
Psychology
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«May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion»
«In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions»
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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About:
Education
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«The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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About:
Mind
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