Delayed obedience is really disobedience.

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in…

— Anonymous

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

— Martin Firrell

I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake City, Utah,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“It is disobedience and not obedience that prompts us to select from the commands of Christ which ones we care to obey.”–1893, Sermon 2317 “No”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”

— Margaret Atwood

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Disobedience is as much a proof of authority as obedience. You cannot rebel without acknowledging a government. You cannot be a heretic until you…

— Tiffany Reisz

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

— Howard Zinn

“You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

— Edwin Louis Cole

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his…

— Noam Chomsky

“If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;... Wake up very early, go to bed lately... Occupy your time usefully!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to…

— Brent Weeks