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

- Learned Hand

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

- Sean Parker

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

- Robert Jackson

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

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

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

- Natan Sharansky

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

- Natan Sharansky

Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.

- Noreena Hertz

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

- Mo Rocca

The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

- Monica Crowley

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

- Bill Keller

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

- John Charles Polanyi

It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.

- Jim Ratcliffe

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

- Jacob Bronowski

Discussion in America means dissent.

- James Thurber

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

- Howard Zinn

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

- Harry Belafonte

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

- George Henry Lewes

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower