Dissident
noun
A person who disagrees or objects to a certain governmental, political system, or set of beliefs.
He was a prominent dissident against the political regime.
Often appears as...
- prominent dissident
- political dissident
adjective
In strong disagreement with a government, political system, or set of beliefs. Often used to describe thoughts, actions or beliefs.
Their dissident voices were silenced by the oppressive regime.
Often appears as...
- dissident group
- dissident voices
noun
A person who disagrees or objects to a certain governmental, political system, or set of beliefs.
He was a prominent dissident against the political regime.
Often appears as...
- prominent dissident
- political dissident
adjective
In strong disagreement with a government, political system, or set of beliefs. Often used to describe thoughts, actions or beliefs.
Their dissident voices were silenced by the oppressive regime.
Often appears as...
- dissident group
- dissident voices
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Political Conflict
Used when someone actively opposes official policies or leaders.
After the debate, she was labeled a dissident for her controversial views.
Pro Tip 2/3Risk of Oppression
Being a dissident can lead to risks like arrest in some countries.
As a dissident, his refusal to conform attracted unwanted government attention.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Charge
The term often carries admiration or sympathy for the dissident's courage.
The gathered crowd cheered for the dissident who dared to speak out.
Pro Tip 1/3Political Conflict
Used when someone actively opposes official policies or leaders.
After the debate, she was labeled a dissident for her controversial views.
Pro Tip 2/3Risk of Oppression
Being a dissident can lead to risks like arrest in some countries.
As a dissident, his refusal to conform attracted unwanted government attention.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Charge
The term often carries admiration or sympathy for the dissident's courage.
The gathered crowd cheered for the dissident who dared to speak out.
Pro Tip 1/3Political Conflict
Used when someone actively opposes official policies or leaders.
After the debate, she was labeled a dissident for her controversial views.
Pro Tip 2/3Risk of Oppression
Being a dissident can lead to risks like arrest in some countries.
As a dissident, his refusal to conform attracted unwanted government attention.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Charge
The term often carries admiration or sympathy for the dissident's courage.
The gathered crowd cheered for the dissident who dared to speak out.
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Christopher Soghoian:...
captured the attention of the world. It also captured the attention of authoritarian governments in other countries, who were worried that revolution would spread. To respond, they ramped up surveillance of activists, journalists and dissidents who they feared would inspire revolution in their own countries.
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Inside the massive (and...
Why? Well, because though night-vision goggles are used today by scientists and hunters around the world, it was a capability first developed for the military. And yet, tools of surveillance that an authoritarian regime could use to spy on its own citizens, on dissidents, on journalists,
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Is your country at risk...
And this leads to point militarization. Dictators survive by instigating fear, and they use the military to suppress dissident voices, even though they try to give the impression that the military is to protect the nation. And they suppress institutions and destroy them
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The reality constructed...
perceive the threats that they could not name because this was the season that friends that you knew were being picked up in disappearing this was the season that politicians were coming up and saying dissidents dissidents and anybody
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When technology can read...
After all, if we can know the inner workings of the human brain, our social security numbers are the least of our worries. Think about it. In a world of total brain transparency, who would dare have a politically dissident thought?
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Revolutions 101 PIPE...
Dissident elites, mass frustration, shared motivation, and state crises. All together, these factors have ignited some of the most radical changes throughout history. Revolutions are often facilitated by a dissident elite.
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
Equally critical is that the measure of how free a society is is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens, but how it treats its dissidents and those who resist orthodoxy. But the most important reason
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How the worst moments in...
of the Soviet underground. I expected their work to be dissident and political. But the radicalism in their work actually lay in reinserting humanity into a society that was annihilating humanity itself,
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Tales of passion -...
books a passionate heart I need Mavericks dissidents adventurers outsiders and rebels who ask questions bend the rules and take risks people like all of you in this room nice people with common sense
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Isabel Allende: Tales of...
Isn't it always true? Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels,
Video examples
Christopher Soghoian:...
captured the attention of the world. It also captured the attention of authoritarian governments in other countries, who were worried that revolution would spread. To respond, they ramped up surveillance of activists, journalists and dissidents who they feared would inspire revolution in their own countries.
Video examples
Inside the massive (and...
Why? Well, because though night-vision goggles are used today by scientists and hunters around the world, it was a capability first developed for the military. And yet, tools of surveillance that an authoritarian regime could use to spy on its own citizens, on dissidents, on journalists,
Video examples
Is your country at risk...
And this leads to point militarization. Dictators survive by instigating fear, and they use the military to suppress dissident voices, even though they try to give the impression that the military is to protect the nation. And they suppress institutions and destroy them
Video examples
The reality constructed...
perceive the threats that they could not name because this was the season that friends that you knew were being picked up in disappearing this was the season that politicians were coming up and saying dissidents dissidents and anybody
Video examples
When technology can read...
After all, if we can know the inner workings of the human brain, our social security numbers are the least of our worries. Think about it. In a world of total brain transparency, who would dare have a politically dissident thought?
Video examples
Revolutions 101 PIPE...
Dissident elites, mass frustration, shared motivation, and state crises. All together, these factors have ignited some of the most radical changes throughout history. Revolutions are often facilitated by a dissident elite.
Video examples
Glenn Greenwald: Why...
Equally critical is that the measure of how free a society is is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens, but how it treats its dissidents and those who resist orthodoxy. But the most important reason
Video examples
How the worst moments in...
of the Soviet underground. I expected their work to be dissident and political. But the radicalism in their work actually lay in reinserting humanity into a society that was annihilating humanity itself,
Video examples
Tales of passion -...
books a passionate heart I need Mavericks dissidents adventurers outsiders and rebels who ask questions bend the rules and take risks people like all of you in this room nice people with common sense
Video examples
Isabel Allende: Tales of...
Isn't it always true? Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels,
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Quote examples
Isabel Allende
Chilean Writer
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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Rebecca MacKinnon
American Journalist
Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.
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Robert Sheckley
American Author
A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.
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Tom Malinowski
The rule of law that China's dissidents ask for is important to U.S. businesses investing in China as well.
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Hisham Matar
American Writer
My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese Activist
Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.
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Deeyah Khan
Norwegian Director
Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.
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Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian Writer
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful.
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Timothy Leary
American Educator
My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.
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Isabel Allende
Chilean Writer
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
Quote examples
Rebecca MacKinnon
American Journalist
Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.
Quote examples
Robert Sheckley
American Author
A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.
Quote examples
Tom Malinowski
The rule of law that China's dissidents ask for is important to U.S. businesses investing in China as well.
Quote examples
Hisham Matar
American Writer
My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.
Quote examples
Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese Activist
Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.
Quote examples
Deeyah Khan
Norwegian Director
Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.
Quote examples
Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian Writer
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
Quote examples
Noam Chomsky
American Activist
Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful.
Quote examples
Timothy Leary
American Educator
My profession is I'm a dissident philosopher.
Example 1 of 10
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