Bill Maher Quotes

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

It is always easy to take a position when society agrees with you. It is hard to take a position that everyone else in society disagrees with.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's what I am. I chose a life apart from the common flow, not only because the common flow makes me sick but because I question the logic of the flow, and not only that - I don't know if the flow exists! Why should I chain myself to the wheel when the wheel itself might be a construct, an invention, a common dream to enslave us?

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

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.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.