Disobedience Quotes · Page 2

“Thank God for a little holy disobedience.”

— Jared Brock

The secret of all failure is disobedience.

— Mary Slessor

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Disobedience is my joy!

— Princess Margaret

“Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit”

— John Milton

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

— Arthur Desmond

“I only punish willful disobedience.”

— Red Phoenix

Become goddesses of disobedience.

— Naomi Wolf

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

— Paulo Coelho

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

— Gail Bradbrook

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

— William Kunstler

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

— Howard Zinn

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

— Joshua Wong

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

— C. S. Lewis

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

— Howard Zinn

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes…

— Rick Santorum

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

— Howard Zinn

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

— George Bernard Shaw

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

— Roger Scruton

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he…

— Rand Paul

[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning…

— Harold B. Lee

I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public…

— Barbara Dana

So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history…

— Charlton Heston

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that…

— Edwidge Danticat

“Disobedience is one of the few tricks you have left to hang on to the idea that you continue to exist distinctively…

— Alexander Masters

So often we give God a partial obedience. We do not dare to disobey, but we do not care to obey fully.…

— Ebenezer Erskine

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the…

— John Adams

This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future.…

— ElRay L. Christiansen

“Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It…

— Jerry Bridges

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather…

— Jane Austen

Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith.…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if…

— Martin Luther King, Jr