Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.
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I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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