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Dissents speak to a future age. By Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dissents Age Speak Future

I protest against any absolute conclusion. By George Eliot Conclusion Protest Absolute

Anyone who ain't family is opposition By Vinnie Paz Opposition Family

Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no". If we cannot say "no" then our "yes" has no meaning. Each needs the chance to express their doubts and reservations, without having to justify them, or move quickly into problem solving. No is the beginning of the conversation for commitment. By Peter Block Dissent Diversity Beliefs Cousin Respect

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. By Friedrich Durrenmatt Individual Rightful Claim Dissent Existential

To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him. By Guy De Maupassant Temperament Challenge Originality Refuse Contest

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. By Charles Evans Hughes Dissents Law Day Appeals Brooding

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever. By Thomas Hobbes Reason Arbitrator Judge Nature Controversy

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind. By Michel De Montaigne Ease Enter Discussion Argument Great

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. By Georg Cantor Numbers Realise Undertaking Place Opposition

The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests. By Ali Abdullah Saleh Thing Objectively Responsibility Interests Opposition

Oppression is opposition. By Lailah Gifty Akita Oppression Opposition

In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute. By George Washington Disputes Dispute Part Desirous Overcome

Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal. But, if they on they are exempted, they become the subjects of just suspicion, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.] By Immanuel Kant Age Criticism Subjected Examination Religion

I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it? By William Shakespeare Answer Judgment Stand

Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions. By Bryant Mcgill Challenge Convictions Authority Rational

In this world, if you raise objections saying, 'my mother-in-law harasses me. My father-in-law harasses me', then there is no end to it. Instead, just put up a sign that says, 'no objection whatsoever!' Even if someone comes raising objection [issues with you], you do not let any problems with him, can you or can you not keep it that way? By Dada Bhagwan Harasses World Raise Objection End

I am a contrarian. By Barry Diller Contrarian

I am not fond of disputation; I have no alternative. By Mencius Disputation Alternative Fond

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! By Walt Whitman Deed Beggarly Arguments Defiant

On the whole, sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections to it, would, with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument. By Benjamin Franklin Sir Occasion Doubt Infallibility Unanimity

Dissent ... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible. By Norman Thomas Dissent Essential Individual Infallible Concept

Opposition should never keep you from the work God has called you to do. By Jim George God Opposition Work Called

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road. By Ursula K. Le Guin Oppose Maintain Goal Road Walk

In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent. By Edwin Gaustad Dissent America Religious Elusive Vital

You have a responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself. By Joss Whedon Responsibility Listen Dissent

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly. By Julian Baggini Make Case Properly Requires Deal

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. By Sigmund Freud Enmity Opposition Necessarily Misused Made

I object to every single thing you just said. By Rainbow Rowell Object Single Thing

Jokes are unanswerable objections. By Mason Cooley Jokes Objections Unanswerable

When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning. By Anne Bronte Listen Opinions Ears Keeping Reasoning

Perhaps some of my hearers this evening may have occasionally heard it stated of me that I am rather apt to contradict myself. I hope I am exceedingly apt to do so. I never met wth a question yet, of any importance, which did not need, for the right solution of it, at least one positive and one negative answer, like an equation of the second degree. Mostly, matters of any consequence are three-sided, or four-sided, or polygonal; and the trotting round a polygon is severe work for people any way stiff in their opinions. For myself, I am never satisfied that I have handled a subject properly till I have contradicted myself at least three times: but once must do for this evening. By John Ruskin Apt Hearers Occasionally Heard Stated

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative. By Robert Barclay Liberties Conscience Goods Lives Question

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,for his view of if is generally right on this side,and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case. By Blaise Pascal Mistaken Show Observe Side Subjectfor

Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in the seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of God, because if there be one, he must approve of the homage of reason rather than that of blindfolded fear ... Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision. By Thomas Jefferson Shake Prejudices Crouched Reason Servile

When one enters any intellectual battle, big or small, public or private, one cannot seek, desire or expect the enemy's sanction. Truth or falsehood must be one's sole concern and sole criterion of judgment - not anyone's approval or disapproval; and, above all, not the approval of those whose standards are the opposite of one's own. By Ayn Rand Battle Big Small Public Private

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. By William Shenstone Call Religion Judgments Sect Trials

It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race. By Jill Tweedie Mind Easy Dismally Enervating Opposition

So far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned. By Woodrow Wilson Concerned Argument Adjourned Religion

In the face of severe injustice, a refusal to dissent is the sign of a character flaw or moral failure. By Glenn Greenwald Injustice Failure Face Severe Refusal

We are very much afflicted now by tedious, fruitless controversy. Very often, perhaps typically, the most important aspect of a controversy is not the area of disagreement but the hardening of agreement, the tacit granting on all sides of assumptions that ought not to be granted on any side. By Marilynne Robinson Tedious Fruitless Controversy Afflicted Typically

[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty. By Thomas Jefferson Civil Hat Government Jurisdiction Falacy

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind. By Alexis De Tocqueville Sovereignty Law Command Mankind Refuse

The life of an oppositionist is supposed to be difficult.) I By Christopher Hitchens Difficult Life Oppositionist Supposed

Refuting a merely contentious argument - a description which applies to the arguments both of Melissus and of Parmenides: their premisses are false and their conclusions do not follow. By Aristotle. Parmenides Melissus Refuting Follow Contentious

..there was nothing to do but to dig away at the base of this mountain of ignorance and prejudice. You must keep at the poor fellow; you must hold your temper, and argue with him, and watch for your chance to stick an idea or two into his head. And the rest of the time you must sharpen up your weapons- you must think out new replies to his objections and provide yourself with new facts to prove to him the folly of his ways. By Upton Sinclair Prejudice Dig Base Mountain Ignorance

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science ... By David Hume Question Contentious Necessity Metaphysics Science

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States. By Caleb Cushing States People United Reception Abridgment

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road. By John Locke Truth Road Permitted Censure Follow

The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so. By Thomas Hardy Resolution Vigorous Expression Coincide Greatest

dissent must be an obligation, not an option. By Eric Schmidt Dissent Obligation Option

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural. By Algernon Sidney General Liberty Intended Natural Submission

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more. By Ulrike Marie Meinhof Protest Resistance Ensure Occurs

Did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence - applied By Sarah Vowell Applied Independence Hesitate Disagreeable Preserve

the ultimate standard, by which we determine all disputes, that may arise concerning them, is always derived from experience and observation. Where this experience is not entirely uniform on any side, it is attended with an unavoidable contrariety in our judgments, and with the same opposition and mutual destruction of argument as in every other kind of evidence. We frequently hesitate concerning the reports of others. We balance the opposite circumstances, which cause any doubt or uncertainty; and when we discover a superiority on any side, we incline to it; but still with a diminution of assurance, in proportion to the force of its antagonist. By Christopher Hitchens Standard Disputes Observation Side Experience

Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished. By Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Speak Crushed Feeling Oppose Opposing

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. By Anatole Broyard Yes Makes Instances Human Tension

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory. By Bertrand Russell Opposition Children Endeavor Illusory Authority

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition By Idries Shah Opposition Mother Ignorance

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me. By Oliver Goldsmith Find Furnish Argument Intellects Sir

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. By Heywood Broun Scoundrel Technical Objection Refuge

opening arguments, By Paul Alexander Opening Arguments

You can register a political objection in a number of ways. By Nicholson Baker Register Political Objection Number

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it. By Patrick O'brian Opposed Authority Oppression Egg Misery

Page 25 "But if we accept the legitimacy of the subject nevertheless, then a new and contentious series of questions at once opens up. By Alain De Botton Page Accept Legitimacy Subject Contentious

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections. By Vincent De Paul Opposition Objections Good Meet Valued

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force. By Bertrand Russell Men Science Disagree Arm Issue

No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right. By William Borah Statute Fatuous Chimera Infested Brain

So numerous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment, that we, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right in any controversy. By Alexander Hamilton Judgment Occasions Society Numerous Powerful

When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy. By Thomas Hobbes Directly Contradictory Opinions Signified Andthe

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. By Benjamin Franklin Opinions World Entered Controversy Defense

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. By John Dryden Argument Tis Blow Knockdown Word

What should worry us is not the number of people who oppose us, but how good their reasons are for doing so. We should therefore divert our attention away from the presence of unpopularity to the explanations for it. It may be frightening to hear that a high proportion of a community holds us to be wrong, but before abandoning our position, we should consider the method by which their conclusions have been reached. It is the soundness of their method of thinking that should determine the weight we give to their disapproval. We seem afflicted by the opposite tendency: to listen to everyone, to be upset by every unkind word and sarcastic observation. We fail to ask ourselves the cardinal and most consoling question: on what basis has this dark censure been made? We treat with equal seriousness the objections of the critic who has thought rigorously and honestly and those of the critic who has acted out of misanthropy and envy. By Alain De Botton Worry Number People Oppose Good

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice. By Blaise Pascal Customs Sounding Source Justice Art

One must submit, like a traveller who has to ascend a mountain: if the mountain was not there, the road would be both shorter and pleasanter; but there it is, and he must get over it. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Submit Pleasanter Mountain Traveller Ascend

Many argue; not many converse. By Louisa May Alcott Argue Converse

opening argument By Ronald Watkins Opening Argument

Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten. By Frances Wright Opinions Rote Alphabet Dictionary Learned

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious. By Iain Pears Scholar Thoughtful Untrained Priest Young

Gently to hear, kindly to judge. By William Shakespeare Gently Hear Kindly Judge

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. By H.l. Mencken Make Puritans Objection

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude. By Joseph Addison Multitude Fellowsubjects Guided Prejudice Education

You can easily see what and endless, wearisome and fruitless task it would be if I were to refute all the unconsidered objections of people who pigheadly contradict everything I say. By Augustine Of Hippo Endless Wearisome Easily Fruitless Task

The duty of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition is to oppose. By Robert A. Heinlein Majesty Loyal Opposition Oppose Duty

A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act. By Elizabeth Janeway Prescription Act Problem Presents Dilemma

Better to give the man what he wanted and save the objections for the battles worth fighting. By Orson Scott Card Fighting Give Man Wanted Save

The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty. By George Washington People Seldom Disquisitions Feelings Interest

If you have received a letter inviting you to speak at the dedication of a new cat hospital, and you hate cats, your reply, declining the invitation, does not necessarily have to cover the full range of your emotions. You must make it clear that you will not attend, but you do not have to let fly at the cats. The writer of the letter asked a civil question; attack cats, then, only if you can do so with good humor, good taste, and in such a way that your answer will be courteous as well as responsive. Since you are out of sympathy with cats, you may quite properly give this as a reason for not appearing at the dedicatory ceremonies of a cat hospital. But bear in mind that your opinion of cats was not sought, only your services as a speaker. Try to keep things straight. By William Strunk Jr. Cats Hospital Reply Declining Invitation

When [a man] thinks that he is reasoning he is really disputing, just because he cannot define and divide, and so know that of which he is speaking; and he will pursue a merely verbal opposition in the spirit of contention and not of fair discussion. By Plato Man Disputing Divide Speaking Discussion

That which is external, it is instrumental (naimitik); it is relative and it is perishable [destructive]. Instrumental means no one has a say in it. One's actions are not of his own free will; he is under the control of external power. So on what basis do you need to object? Sooner or later you will have to become free from objections. By Dada Bhagwan Naimitik Destructive Perishable Instrumental Relative

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. By Fredrik Bajer Read Presented View Advanced Matter

A cold feeling crept over me, as if there actually was a right or wrong answer to the question. In English class, there were no right or wrong answers as long as you could find evidence to back up your opinion. By Kami Garcia Wrong Question Cold Feeling Crept

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is ... He must have models with which to agree ... or outright oppose ... for Nature seems to remain silence. By Charles Bartlett Johnson Art Points Writer Argues Agree

Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God. By Steven Furtick God Presence Opposition Prevent Opportunity

Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason. By Charles Churchill Reviewers Dispute Sufficient Reason Treason

The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word all the time, and I think behind it lurk some really extraordinary taboos and confusions. What I want to argue tonight is that how we talk about belief- how we fail to criticize or criticize the beliefs of others, has more importance to us personally, more consequence to us personally and to civilization than perhaps anything else that is in our power to influence. By Sam Harris Problem Tonight Belief Talk Personally

On the stand, I asked the witness, "What's your occupation?""Make-up artist.""Objection!" I replied, "Lack of foundation. By Natalya Vorobyova Objection Makeup Stand Witness Occupation

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite. By George Washington Parties Constitute Dispute Heard Differences

[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal can be consistently made from that remedy by those who were and still profess to be parties to it, but the appeal to the parties themselves having an authority above the Constitution or to the law of nature & of nature's God. By James Madison Constitution Nature God Remedy Appeal

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. By John Milton Reason Law Subdue Force Refuse