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    Howard Zinn
    “The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.”
    ― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
    tags: catalyst, change, defiance, history, opposition, self-assurance
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    Albert Einstein
    “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: inspirational, opposition, wisdom
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    Criss Jami
    “It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: articulate, belief, challenging, disagreements, enemies, honesty, opinion, opposition, stand-out, truth
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    Henrik Ibsen
    “You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
    ― Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
    tags: confidence, opposition, resistance, struggle
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  • #5
    Kamand Kojouri
    “Embrace contradictions
    for they make up
    all of life:
    You will eternally be
    looking for yourself and
    seeking ways to lose yourself.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: accept, acceptance, acknowledge, balance, character, consciousness, contradiction-quotes, contradictions, contradictory, contrary, different, ego, embrace, eternal, eternally, existence, find, find-yourself, forget, found, give-in, identity, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, let-go, life, life-quotes, look, looking, lose, lose-yourself, lost, make, oppose, opposites, opposition, paradox, remember, search, searching, seek, seeking, self, surrender, truth, yin-and-yang, yin-yang, yourself
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    Tamuna Tsertsvadze
    “Before picking fights, learn to assess your opponents.”
    ― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates
    tags: assess-yourself, battle, experience, fight, opponent, oppose, prudence, wisdom
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    Noam Chomsky
    “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
    ― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good
    tags: 1998
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children
    tags: debate, politics, prejudices, propaganda, rhetoric
    279 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: argument, correct, debate, knowledge, pretend, right, speech, winning
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  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
    tags: arguement, debate, disagreement, dispute, heat, ice, thoughts
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  • #11
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
    tags: argumentation, debate
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    Peter Hitchens
    “Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?”
    ― Peter Hitchens
    tags: brainwashing, debate, indoctrination, manipulation, rhetoric
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    Noam Chomsky
    “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: debate, politics
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    James Surowiecki
    “Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.”
    ― James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds
    tags: debate, decisions, diversity
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    William Penn
    “In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.”
    ― William Penn
    tags: debate, inspirational, justice, truth
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    Stefan Molyneux
    “Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: bravery, censorship, courage, critical-thinking, debate, discussions, freedom, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, knowledge, objectivism, pc, philosophy, political-correctness, psychology, rationality, relationships, safe-space, self-knowledge, sick, society, trigger, trigger-warning
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    Criss Jami
    “It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”
    ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
    tags: abstraction, conflict, confusion, debate, definition, disagreement, fortunate, fortunately, ideas, love, obscurity, opinions, truth, uncertainty, unfortunate, unfortunately, world
    34 likes

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  • #18
    C.S. Lewis
    “By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: argument, debate, religion, screwtape
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  • #19
    “The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.”
    ― Richard Henry Pratt
    tags: argument, debate, truth
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  • #20
    Tom Clancy
    “A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.”
    ― Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor
    tags: communication, debate, discussion
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  • #21
    Haresh Sippy
    “Discussions, debates and even arguments will be fruitful if done with an open mind.”
    ― Haresh Sippy
    tags: debate, open-mind, open-minded
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  • #22
    “So why don't they face us... examine our evidence, debate, talk... act like real historians instead of thought-police? Why shut us out of the media, pass laws against our speaking, persecute us, sue us, and vilify us?”
    ― Randolph D. Calverhall, Serpent's Walk
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