Disobedience Quotes

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience.

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...