Disobedience Quotes

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.

We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

If civil disobedience is the way to go about change, than I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

I think Iran is the kind of place where it's difficult to predict what's going to trigger structural change. It's hard to also predict the role that civil disobedience or mass protests could play.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.