dissent

If you believe in your heart that you are right, then you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

The ultimate truth is mystical truth, the ultimate reality is sacred chaos. - Muzwot

The ultimate truth is mystical truth, the ultimate reality is sacred chaos.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.