Top 92 Disobey Quotes
#1. To the girls of the Middle East: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free
Mona Eltahawy
#2. She cursed her will, which could rear so impetuously and leap over hurdles so dauntlessly when her desires strove toward impossible goals - her will, so weak, so pliant, so broken not only when she was forced to disobey her desires, but also when she was driven by some other emotion.
Marcel Proust
#3. When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.
Martin Firrell
#4. Boys disobey their parents with such great regularity that it's barely worth a comment; and if yours is talented enough to rebel in such grand fashion, then you ought to consider it a point of pride that he's such a sharp lad.
Cherie Priest
#5. I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
Rachel Weisz
#6. Why I felt the need to always disobey everyone around me was beyond me. But I guess being sixteen years old made me susceptible to bouts of irrational behaviour and the occasional notion that I was in fact smarter than everyone else, regardless of whether or not that was true.
Kristy Berridge
#7. Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
Ambrose Bierce
#8. I know faith. Therefore, I must embrace the crown of thorns. I seek the truth. Therefore, I must dare to disobey God.
Sunao Yoshida
#9. I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.
Kiera Cass
#10. The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. "What is the use of [external restraint]?"
Swami Vivekananda
#12. I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.
Vladimir Nabokov
#13. God is not some omnipotent authority looking down from above, threatening to throw us into a pit of fire if we disobey. God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts! God is in all things!
Dan Brown
#14. To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.
Amanda Smith
#15. In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.
David Platt
#16. What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.
Maurice De Vlaminck
#17. I do wonder, sometimes, if I had had a daughter, how I would have brought her up. How - when it's taken me so long to unlearn the things I believe are most damaging to the cause of women's liberation and equality - would I have raised my daughter to disobey?
Mona Eltahawy
#18. Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.
Anne Clark
#19. The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.
Wayne Grudem
#20. When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
Ann Radcliffe
#21. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
John Fowles
#22. Jesus enters the garden, in preparation, intending to face his fears by facing his God, his Father, His greatest fear is to offend his Father, to disobey his own calling, its integrity, and the word of God on his life.
Megan McKenna
#23. We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong ... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.
Alexander Bickel
#24. Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish. I thought later how simply and quickly they had introduced that concept to me, as easily as breaking a little finger. For some reason they had decided not to beat me.
Elizabeth Kostova
#25. To Choose To Disobey God's Command Is To Be Doomed To Live A Life Independently God
Sunday Adelaja
#26. To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
Randy Alcorn
#27. You please me, I'll please you. You do what I tell you to do, I'll take care of you. You disobey me or act out, I'll punish you then I'll take care of you.
Kristen Ashley
#28. When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them."
Pastor Butch Paugh
Tarrin P. Lupo
#29. Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?
Cassandra Clare
#30. Every game has rules. Obey the rules, win the game; disobey the rule, lose it! The game of life has loser and winners. Play fairly and win!
Israelmore Ayivor
#31. It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#32. Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.
Wayne LaPierre
#33. The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.
Peace Pilgrim
#35. But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
remember that
and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
Herman Melville
#36. It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.
Richard D. James
#37. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree.
Tahereh Mafi
#38. If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.
Martin Firrell
#39. The Librarian has spoken, sally! We Dare Not Disobey!
James Turner
#40. If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame. But, if orders are clear and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their oficers.
Sun Tzu
#41. We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.
Bryant McGill
#42. The more we obey God, the more we desire to help others. The more we help others, the more we love God and on and on. Conversely, the more we disobey God and the more selfish we are, the less love we feel.
John H. Groberg
#43. The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.
Saint Augustine
#44. In the judgment men will not be condemned because they conscientiously believed a lie, but because they did not believe the truth, because they neglected the opportunity of learning what is truth. Notwithstanding the sophistry of Satan to the contrary, it is always disastrous to disobey God.
Ellen G. White
#45. To disobey God's law is to forfeit your relationship with him
Sunday Adelaja
#46. There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
Ann Radcliffe
#47. Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer ... "
"Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.
Anthony Horowitz
#48. Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#49. But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.
Mikhail Bakunin
#50. Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds, as their program states they disobey them.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#51. Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.
Erich Fromm
#52. Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#53. Like any wise ruler, Abbot Arkos did not issue orders vainly, when to disobey was possible and to enforce was not possible. It was better to look the other way than to command ineffectually.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#54. In the words of then - vice president Richard Nixon, the increasing crime rate "can be traced directly to the spread of the corrosive doctrine that every citizen possesses an inherent right to decide for himself which laws to obey and when to disobey them."37
Michelle Alexander
#55. You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.
Mario Savio
#57. You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
Guillermo Del Toro
#58. The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
Jean Cocteau
#59. If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.
Lysander Spooner
#60. If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.
Malcolm Gladwell
#61. when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#62. Sometimes you want to cry but the tears deceive you, but at other, you just want to hold the tears but they disobey you.
Girdhar Joshi
#63. They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
Amy Hempel
#64. For they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.
Jonathan Swift
#65. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#67. Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of society. For one man to disobey a law he does not like is to invite others to disobey another law which he may regard as indispensable to his own livelihood - or life.
Robert Kennedy
#69. The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.
Gardiner Spring
#70. For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.
Melissa Marr
#72. I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
John Bunyan
#73. Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.
Joseph Hertz
#74. You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.
Roselyne Bosch
#75. O' youth do not disobey the words of the wise. Its better than fortune if the wise-one gives you advice.
Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
#76. Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.
Tullian Tchividjian
#77. When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it.
Stacey Lee
#78. What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?
Socrates
#79. As the boy looked at it, my thing moved and he whispered "It is splendid! Do let me try its love-making" ...
And I was too polite to disobey.
Henry M. Christman
#80. You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.
Charlton Heston
#81. Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.
Khalil Gibran
#82. Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
Arthur Hertzberg
#84. All I've done all my life is disobey.
Edith Piaf
#85. To disobey God at any instance is to lose all acquired
Sunday Adelaja
#86. It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.
Jerry Bridges
#87. You claim to love God, and yet you disobey God
This is a bizarre way of reasoning
Surely, the lover, if his love is true,
Is most obedient to the one he loves.
Poet
#88. The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
Albert Einstein
#89. Time was to sin and to enjoy, time was to scoff at God and at the warnings of His holy church, time was to defy His majesty, to disobey His commands, to hoodwink one's fellow men, to commit sin after sin and to hide one's corruption from the sight of men.
James Joyce
#90. These incidents of answered prayer are not more wonderful or more worthy of record than multitudes the world over could testify to, but they are written and sent out simply and only because I had to write them or disobey God.
Rosalind Goforth
#91. Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Thomas Carlyle
#92. I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.
C.S. Lewis