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 Copy Share Image
I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge… — Al-Shafi‘i Copy Share Image
Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“The greatest mistake a people can make is to hesitate even for a single second to overthrow a greedy government that cares… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this… — Larry Klayman Copy Share Image
I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are… — Emma Sulkowicz Copy Share Image
Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Disobedience,' the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are… — Alexander Bickel Copy Share Image
If we remain in disobedience, knowing we are disobeying God, and not making an honest effort to grow spiritually, then we really… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt commit civil disobedience," There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not." What you do is you face… — Allard K. Lowenstein Copy Share Image
I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to… — Osman Baydemir Copy Share Image
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to… — Marsha Blackburn Copy Share Image
God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart,… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image