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
Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
“The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to… — Vandana Shiva 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
Okay, so here's my question: When did civility become incompatible with protest? Why do some people consider civility an antonym - anathema,… — Steven Petrow 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
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
I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience. — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We live in a nation where education and free thought are tantamount to treason, and I have to ask, under these circumstances,… — Michel Templet 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
Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
“[Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now added to their hatred contempt;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to… — David T. Dellinger 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
![“My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in the late twentieth century, a period of a totalitarianism linked with the market. There is really no other way you can do politics and create freedom for people…” quote by Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/461/vandana-shiva-2756_available_my-links-with-mahatma-gandhi-now-are-ver_1306949.jpg)
![“Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da7/philip-glass-14533_chorus_satyagraha-is-an-opera-which-i-wrote-for_2434194.jpg)
![“[Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now added to their hatred contempt; and the minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that, instead of obeying commands with silence, they expected to be flattered into their duty.” quote by Plutarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/127/plutarch-597_authority_theseus-soon-found-himself-involved-in-f_1143066.jpg)
