Top 100 Quotes About Disobedience
#1. The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
John Stott
#2. In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful.
Lionel Shriver
#3. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.
Saadi
#5. Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.
Hasan Of Basra
#6. Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.
Francis A. Schaeffer
#9. Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.
Marcus Buckingham
#11. Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
Jane Austen
#13. Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to God, and fighting with him is infidelity.
Elijah Muhammad
#14. We owe God a "double debt" incurred by our passive receipt of Adam's debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a "daring debt" because we challenge not only God's Law but His very grace as we blame Him that He has not done enough.
Foppe Vander Zwaag
#15. While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.
John Woolman
#16. Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
Sonia Johnson
#18. Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience
Benedict Of Nursia
#19. All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
Nancy Gibbs
#20. The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority.
Safak Pavey
#21. Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.
Antonio Negri
#22. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. Right and wrong aren't dropped from the sky. We. We make them. Against misery. Invariably, Harry, invariably
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misery follows their disobedience. Not our own, often at first not our own.
John Updike
#24. Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition ... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.
Osman Baydemir
#29. All the pretensions you make of attachment to your Master, and all the devout actions which you may perform, are no recompense for disobedience.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#30. Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.
Erich Fromm
#31. My nose never lies," he boasted. "I can smell defiance, I can smell pride, I can smell disobedience. I catch a whiff of any such stinks, you'll answer for it. When I sniff you, all I want to smell is fear
George R R Martin
#32. I realized that I was trying to fit God's will into my will. Not out of disobedience, but out of fear that I would disappoint God, or let Him down.
Michelle Lynn Brown
#33. A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
Barbara Deming
#34. Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
#35. For all sins, as theologians weary not of reminding us, are sins of disobedience. When that high spirit, that morning star of evil, fell from heaven, it was as a rebel that he fell.
Oscar Wilde
#36. You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience
Edwin Louis Cole
#37. Rejoicing is clearly a spiritual command. To ignore it, I need to remind you, is disobedience.
Charles R. Swindoll
#38. I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation,
So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;
He informed me that knowledge is a light,
And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.
Al-Shafi'i
#39. Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
Tariq Ali
#42. The root of our disobedience is essentially failing to remember who he is. And the reverse is true - for as long as we remember who he is, we will serve him wholeheartedly, radically, and joyfully.
Timothy Keller
#43. There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
Howard Zinn
#44. Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan's disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam's lapse was passion.
Sufyan Al-Thawri
#45. Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.
Erich Fromm
#46. The problem in this world is not civil disobedience ... th e problem in this world is civil obedience.
Howard Zinn
#47. Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.
Ron Paul
#48. 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
#49. He has consigned all men to disobedience, that He may have mercy upon all. (Romans 11:32, RSV)
Neville Goddard
#51. To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to speak from our hearts, to act from our conscience and have faith in the consequences of moral action. Abundance is a form of consciousness.
Terry Tempest Williams
#52. nothing apart from Him, while disobedience shows that you desire to rebel against God,
Robert Woeger
#53. The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
Saint Augustine
#54. Thank God for a little holy disobedience.
Jared Brock
#56. Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories.
Carla H. Krueger
#57. Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Edwin Louis Cole
#58. At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
John R.W. Stott
#59. It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against ... everything.
Alice Notley
#60. The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
Roger Scruton
#61. Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.
Walter Isaacson
#63. It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#64. My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
Martin Sheen
#65. 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.
Noam Chomsky
#66. So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.
John R.W. Stott
#67. According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient! It might be good if we stopped using the terms 'victory' and 'defeat' to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms 'obedience' and 'disobedience.
Jerry Bridges
#70. I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
Edward James Olmos
#71. 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
#72. However, not all sorrow and adversity come as a result of disobedience. Some of the disappointments come from living in a fallen world. Many
Charles F. Stanley
#73. But there were other forces at work in the cub, the greatest of which was growth. Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience ... In the end, one day, fear and obedience were swept away by the rush of life, and the cub straddled and sprawled toward the entrance.
Jack London
#74. The fourth duty of a teacher is to dissuade his students from evil ways with care and caution, with sympathy and not with rebuke and harshness, because in that case it destroys the veil of awe and encourages disobedience.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#75. Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience.
Carolyn Shields
#76. Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
Tullian Tchividjian
#77. Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.
Sivananda
#78. Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
Ezra Taft Benson
#79. There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.
Douglas Brinkley
#80. DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
Ambrose Bierce
#81. The whip was the standard punishment for disobedience. Running away was a transgression so large that the punishment enveloped every generous soul on her brief tour of freedom.
Colson Whitehead
#82. Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government. It falls upon the people, in the last resort, to stand against injustice no matter where it occurs.
Ron Paul
#83. In other words, the Regent was to be informed that his Captain had been well and truly turned off, in a manner that could not be painted as a revolt against the Regency, or as princely disobedience, or as lazy incompetence. Round one: Laurent. They
C.S. Pacat
#84. Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.
Jorge Luis Borges
#86. I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci
#87. Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.
Rick Warren
#88. When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.
Paulo Coelho
#89. Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.
Edward T. Welch
#92. It is our response to temptation that leads us down the path of righteousness or into the dead end of disobedience.
Alistair Begg
#93. Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#94. The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones who set limits
through our neglect our disobedience or ignorance. We are in large measure the ones who determine what we will learn and experience in mortality, and what we will receive eternally.
Sheri L. Dew
#95. The only alternative to soul winning is disobedience to Christ.
Curtis Hutson
#96. If the human race would turn from its evil ways and return to God, putting behind its sins of disobedience, idolatry, pride, greed, and belligerence, and all the various aberrations that lead to war, the possibility of peace exists.
Billy Graham
#97. 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.
Alexander Hamilton
#98. Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
Pope Shenouda III
#99. God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience
Charles Stanley
#100. The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. 'Wickedness never was happiness' [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience never was happiness. The way of happiness is following the way of the Lord. I believe this with all my heart.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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