Dissent

thumb|Saint Nicholas with [[Arius at the Council of Nicaea, at which he is said to have hit him; Arius was known for preaching that Jesus was created by God and has a lower status, a heresy in Trinitarian Christianity]]Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization. A heretic is a proponent of heresy.

active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power

phrase attributed to Galileo Galilei on being forced to recant his scientific view

political concept

thumb|Sticker art arguing that dissent is necessary for [[democracy.]]

opinion written by one or more judges disagreeing with the majority

political party

Civil rights movement against the communist state of GDR (East Germany) in the 1989 revolution; political party since 1990

A dissenter (from the Latin , 'to disagree') is one who dissents (disagrees) in matters of opinion, belief, etc. Dissent may include political opposition to decrees, ideas or doctrines and it may include opposition to those things or the fiat of a government, political party or religion.

world view

Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed wrongful – whether it be illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe, unethical, or fraudulent. Whistleblowers can communicate in a variety of ways internally, and/or publicly. Over 83% of whistleblowers report internally to a supervisor, human resources, compliance, or a neutral third party within the company, hoping that the company will address and correct the issues. A whistleblower can also bring all

book by Ivan Dziuba

Irish Republicans opposed to the 1998 peace agreement that ended the Troubles

expression designed to convey dissatisfaction with or opposition to the policies of a governing body

political party

German (, exile literature) is the name for works of German literature written in the German diaspora by refugee authors who fled from Nazi Germany, Nazi Austria, and the occupied territories between 1933 and 1945. These dissident writers, poets and artists, many of whom were of Jewish ancestry or held anti-Nazi beliefs, fled into exile in 1933 after the Nazi Party came to power in Germany and after Nazi Germany annexed Austria by the in 1938, abolished the freedom of press, and started to prosecute authors and ban works.

thumb|upright=1.3|A 17th century painting depicting the Denial of Peter, found in the four [[Gospels in the New Testament. In it, Peter denies having associated with Jesus, who is being sought by authorities.]] Denial, in colloquial English usage, has at least three meanings:

thumb|Former Washington, D.C. office of Kontinent Kontinent was an émigré dissident journal which focused on the politics of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Founded in 1974 by writer Vladimir Maximov, its first editor-in-chief, it was published in German and Russian and later translated into English. A Norwegian edition, '''', was published from 1979 to 1981.