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Quotation by Daniel J. Boorstin
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published in The Exploring Spirit: America and the World Experience (1976)America and the Image of Europe (1960)Democracy and its Discontents: Reflections on Everyday Americans Random House (1974)"Dissent, Dissension, and the News" The Decline of Radicalism: Reflections on America Today, Random House (1960)The Americans: The Democratic Experience Random House (1973)
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.
Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. "Dissent, Dissension, and the News," The Decline of Radicalism: Reflections on America Today, Random House (1960).
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