Top 100 Quotes About Disobedience
#1. That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.
Maeve Brennan
#4. When in doubt, you face the possibility of deception.. when you are decieved, you face the possibility of diversion... when you are diverted, you face the possibility of disobedience...and these are the D's to every man's Defeat.
Hope D. Blackwell
#5. Disciplines are by definition based on territorial epistemologies: studying the borders doesn't lead necessarily to border thinking . . . unless scholars engage in epistemological disciplinary disobedience and bring to the fore the existential experience of dwelling in the border. By
Walter D. Mignolo
#6. Today's difficulties are often a result of yesterday's disobedience.
Priscilla Shirer
#7. Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.
Richard G. Scott
#10. The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. Disobedience is a sure recipe for disaster, picking up the pieces is even harder
Kudakwashe Mazendame
#12. A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words ...
Emmeline Pankhurst
#13. How bold we are. We shy from a flame that licks the tip of our finger for a fraction of a second, and from which we are allowed the luxury of escape. But most of humankind flaunt their disobedience in the face of an eternal fire that engulfs all, and from which there is no escape. Ever.
Laurence B. Brown
#14. 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
#15. The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is disobedience.
Tony Evans
#16. [ ... ] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.
Kathy Acker
#17. I love you," I murmur, and he smiles his heart-achingly shy smile, and I melt. "I will always love you, Christian."
"And I you," he says softly.
"In spite of my disobedience?" I raise my eyebrow.
"Because of your disobedience, Anastasia." He grins.
E.L. James
#18. 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.
John Bytheway
#19. Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
Howard Zinn
#20. 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.
Robert M. Pirsig
#21. Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.
Watchman Nee
#22. It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.
Winston Churchill
#23. Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.
Max Anders
#24. For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice.
Erich Fromm
#25. Sometimes, after shedding all the loads with the view of making your heavy and sinking boat lighter so that you can sail and move on with the journey of purposeful life, you realize that there is one more thing to offload: disobedience, and there is one more thing to load: absolute faith!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#26. 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
#27. We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.
O.R. Melling
#28. Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.
Marvin Ammori
#30. But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely ... punishment?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#31. It never pleases me to punish willful disobedience, Isabel. Having to punish you for that sort of thing means I've failed to communicate what it is I expect out of you. It means I'm failing you as a Dom if you don't understand what my wants and needs are, and I hate failing at anything.
Ella Dominguez
#32. 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.
Rick Santorum
#33. 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.
Martin Sheen
#34. Our problems don't stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.
Stephen Covey
#35. You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.
Guillermo Del Toro
#36. there are just two cities on your map. The Nineveh of obedience and the Tarshish of disobedience. You are going to Nineveh or to Tarshish.
Clovis Gillham Chappell
#38. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. - Oscar Wilde (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)
Oscar Wilde
#39. 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.
Alphonsus Liguori
#40. The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.
Peter Lake
#41. 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
#42. Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.
Clement Of Alexandria
#44. I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.
Terry Tempest Williams
#45. Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.
C.S. Lewis
#50. 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
#51. It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle.
#52. I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.
Barbara Dana
#53. 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.
Soren Kierkegaard
#54. I never read Civil Disobedience. They did assign it.
Brian Spellman
#55. Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.
Auliq Ice
#56. Never be disobedient; take a coach, take a mentor and be instructed!
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. Writing requires maximum ambition, maximum audacity, and programmatic disobedience.
Elena Ferrante
#58. In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.
Al Sharpton
#59. Ethnicity and tribe began, by definition, where sovereignty and taxes ended. The ethnic zone was feared and stigmatized by state rhetoric precisely because it was beyond its grasp and therefore an example of defiance and an ever-present temptation to those who might wish to evade the state.
James C. Scott
#60. Don't worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We'll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink themselves stupid all night. And if worse comes to worst, well, we've got all the guns, haven't we?
Peter F. Hamilton
#61. Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.
Howard Zinn
#62. New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.
Douglas Coop
#64. If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.
Al Gore
#65. Any man may believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and be happy in that belief, and yet not obey his commandments, and at last be cut down for disobedience to the Lord's righteous requirements.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#66. There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last.
David T. Dellinger
#67. I've been arrested three times. I don't like getting arrested, but it's not so bad when it's an organized form of nonviolent disobedience. It's something appealing to a higher law.
Josh Fox
#68. The hardened disobedience of men's hearts leads not to the frustration of God's plans, but to their fruition.
John Piper
#69. ... for there are times when disobedience heals a very ailing part of the self. It relieves the human spirit's distress at being forced into narrow boundaries. For the nearly powerless, defying authority is often the only power available.
Malidoma Patrice Some
#70. Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.
Ayn Rand
#71. The disobedience of our children should never take us by surprise as parents, EVER. That is our high calling as parents, to direct, train, nurture, love and shepherd our chil dren. It is important we move from irritation with our children and move toward op portunity for training.
Kara Tippetts
#72. Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience
Erich Fromm
#73. Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.
John Tillotson
#74. Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#76. The truth is that the demise of healing came as a result of disobedience to the instructions of Jesus and nothing more.
Praying Medic
#77. 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
#78. I don't believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.
Ellen Page
#80. When any individual or collection of individuals acts in disobedience to the moral order, short-term gratification may be experienced; but such behavior produces an inevitable deterioration of the personality and leads to a long term loss of what is truly worthy.
Ronald H. Nash
#81. I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
Rosie O'Donnell
#82. Making disciples requires not only "sharing our faith," but also sharing our lives - failures and successes, disobedience and obedience.
Anonymous
#83. It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.
Dylan Moran
#84. If we don't rebel, if we're not physically in an active rebellion, then it's spiritual death.
Chris Hedges
#85. The secret of all failure is disobedience.
Mary Slessor
#86. Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. True civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
Archibald Cox
#89. By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#90. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau
#92. Those in authority tend to be annoyed by hackers' general attitude of disobedience. But that disobedience is a byproduct of the qualities that make them good programmers.
Paul Graham
#93. Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience.
Oswald Chambers
#94. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. Gandhi said that only people with a high regard for the law were qualified for civil disobedience.
Mark Shepard
#96. Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.
George Muller
#97. Choice is taken from them and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm. (138)
Oscar Wilde
#98. You could only rebel against it by secret disobedience or, at most, by isolated acts of violence such as killing somebody or blowing something up.
George Orwell
#99. Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
C.S. Lewis
#100. Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse
John Milton
