Quote by Emily Dickinson
Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- youre straightway dangero

Assent — and you are sane — , demur — youre straightway dangerous — , and handled with a Chain — . – Emily Dickinson

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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I love opposition that has convictions. – Frederick the Great

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Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. – Andrea Dworkin

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If we confuse dissent with disloyalty – Edward R. Murrow

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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. – William Hazlitt

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