Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden,…

— John Milton

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.

— John Milton

Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger

— John Milton

“When people complain, for instance, that they find it hard to believe, it is a sign of deliberate or unconscious disobedience... The outcome is…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor the ever-changing…

— Maximus the Confessor

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what…

— John Milton

“Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure; and, in my choyce, To reign is worth ambition, though…

— John Milton

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

— John Milton

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Jane Austen

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

— Gail Bradbrook

Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation…

— Robert Anton Wilson

The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is…

— Rory Kennedy

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte

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

— Margaret Atwood