Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Thoreau’s declaration in “Civil Disobedience”: “I heartily accept the motto—‘That government is best which governs least.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Little children, never be disobedient to those who are wiser than you for disobedience was the beginning of all the miseries and… — Yei Theodora Ozaki Copy Share Image
“disobedience, refusal to work, refusal to answer when spoken to, and a determination not to succeed.” — Harold Schechter Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course. — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“… for there are times when disobedience heals a very ailing part of the self. It relieves the human spirit’s distress at… — Malidoma Patrice Somé Copy Share Image
I'd been focused on trying to start civil disobedience since 2010. I'd tried many things and they hadn't worked. So I went… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
“Among many other things, those dirtbag river runners uphold the virtue of disobedience: the principle that in a free society, defiance for… — Kevin Fedarko Copy Share Image
Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and… — Maeve Brennan Copy Share Image
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken;… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.” — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." - Oscar Wilde (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation? — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
