"Dissident" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leaders: Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), former dissident group, Idriss DEBY, chairman note: President DEBY, who promised political pluralism, a new constitution, and free elections by April 1994, subsequently twice postponed these initiatives, first until April 1995 and again until ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... et scopulis imminet. Quis enim in tanta multitudine rerum et librorum omnia exhauriret? Quis non alicubi impingeret? Quis salvum ab invidia caput retraheret, ac malignitatis dentes in liberiore censura evitaret? Praeterea ut palato et gustu differunt convivae, ita judiciis dissident lectores, neque omnium idem de rebus sensus est, hoc praesertim tempore, quo plures sunt librorum judices, quam lectores, et e lectoribus in lictores, ubique virgas et secures expedituros, multi degenerant.' Praef. Morhof.—Even the great Lambecius (of whom ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... incurable; but of this or that individual he had no opinion; he was to John Norton a blank sheet of paper, to which he could not affix even a title. His childhood had been one of tumult and sorrow; the different and dissident ideals growing up in his heart and striving for the mastery, had torn and tortured him, and he had long lain as upon a mental rack. Ignorance of the material laws of existence had extended even into his sixteenth year, and when, bit by bit, the veil fell, and he understood, he was filled with ...
— Celibates • George Moore
... through the Gross and Vaporous Air neer the Earth, and through the Air over our heads: Which, if he observe the Moon in the Horizon, and neer the Zenith with a Telescope, he will experimentally find; and, having done so, he will perhaps not be so dissident in this matter. ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various
... as long as the era of persecution lasted, the early Christians never thought of using any force save the force of argument to win back their dissident brethren. This is the meaning of that obscure passage in the Adversus Gnosticos of Tertullian, in which he speaks of "driving heretics (i.e., by argument), to their duty, instead of trying to win them, for obstinacy must be conquered, not coaxed."[1] In this work he is trying to convince ...
— The Inquisition - A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church • E. Vacandard |
