In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
James William Fulbright
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
J. W. FULBRIGHT In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste,...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
HARRY BELAFONTE Every moment in life is an act of faith
PAULO COELHO Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. WHITE Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E.B. WHITE Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE A library implies an act of faith.
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO In too many countries, leaders speak of democracy, yet rig elections, suppress dissent, and shackle ...
HAROLD KOH Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
PETER USTINOV Fulbright Interest Day is when I really try reaching out to everyone and tell them Fulbright is obta...
DEBORAH PIERCE Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, di...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
PETER USTINOV Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relat...
G.K. CHESTERTON Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
PAUL TILLICH If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must ha...
HENRY COMMAGER There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolut...
CRISS JAMI In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the exten...
NOAM CHOMSKY In every religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. it is in modern day...
STEVE MARABOLI In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in mo...
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ALFONSO CUARON But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
ANNA BARBAULD But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
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ANDY STOLL Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have ...
DEAN INGE When you sacrifice everything for your family, and you’re committed to changing your lifestyle to ...
CELSO CUKIERKORN There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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WILLIAM JAMES Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was...
YANN MARTEL Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fe...
JACK KEMP Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and wh...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith...
JOHN BINGHAM Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and i...
DEAN INGE The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding an...
DAVE EGGERS Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love...
ERICH FROMM Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets ...
SIGMUND FREUD Faith is a necessary prerequisite for a courageous act
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JIM HIGHTOWER Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical ...
PAUL TILLICH Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the t...
WILLIAM JAMES Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psycho...
BRENNAN MANNING He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and ...
HAROLD BLOOM If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON If he were / To be made honest by an act of parliament, / I should not alter in my faith of him.
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WILLIAM JAMES An Act of Dissent is simply a way of saying, 'No, I do not accept this and, as my silence may be con...
MARK THOMAS The only requirement for a courageous act is faith
SUNDAY ADELAJA The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. The CUD (Coalition for Unity and Democracy) leaders are engaged in insurrection -- that is an act of...
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THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Ju...
THURGOOD MARSHALL I would encourage the commission to weigh heavily the First Amendment rights that we have, because t...
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KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.
BLANCHE LINCOLN The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.
OLIVER WENDEL HOLMES Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in w...
VICTOR HUGO To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As s...
E. M. CIORAN At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are s...
MAX L. LUCADO Galvin uses the word 'faith' several times in his summation to the jury, ... He says, 'In my faith, ...
SIDNEY LUMET God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so ...
ELSA TAMEZ Gale Norton is one of the scariest Cabinet nominees since James Watt. We expect a fierce struggle ov...
BROCK EVANS William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. �...
GEORGE SHEEHAN Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
NATAN SHARANSKY If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance be...
MOHANDAS GANDHI Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGES Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
HOWARD ZINN If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increa...
DOROTHY DAY We have a representative democracy and the way senators vote on legislation or other matters is the ...
ANDREW BARTLETT To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in ...
MICHAEL SHERMER It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of ou...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ...
GERMANY KENT How long were you standing there?"
"Long enough to know you will be leaving soon. I thoug...
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HENRY S. COMMAGER When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES As we work through your Fulbright application, I will become your personal cheerleader.
DEBORAH PIERCE Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that se...
G. K. CHESTERTON Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some de...
OLIVER SACKS In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
NATAN SHARANSKY The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t...
THORNTON WILDER When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly lo...
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WILLIAM JAMES The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ...
WILLIAM JAMES It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our...
WILLIAM JAMES The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner ...
WILLIAM JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
WILLIAM JAMES Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourse...
WILLIAM JAMES See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, ob...
WILLIAM JAMES