Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Quotes

#1. The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

Orlando Bloom

#3. Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

Marvin Ammori

#4. He's awake and listening to us," said the old woman. "Sly little rascal." She chuckled. "But royalty has need of slyness. And if he's really the Kwisatz Haderach ... well ... .

Frank Herbert

#5. I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town, to get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up,

Larry Klayman

#6. Boxing is your father's sport.

Dana White

#7. A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

N. T. Wright

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. The refutation and remedy of errors cannot precede their rise; and thus the fact of false developments or corruptions involves the correspondent manifestation of true ones. Moreover,

John Henry Newman

#12. The burden of my anxiety is not my child's.

Paula Heller Garland

#13. When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.

RuPaul

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Going from playing a backroom of a bar to a show for 80,000 people ... that's pretty wild.

The Rev

#16. Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

Walter J. Ong

#17. Everything has a cause and the cause of anything is everything.

Walter J. Turner