Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
Dissents speak to a future age.
In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
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.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
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