Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for… — Kumari Jayawardena Copy Share Image
There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation? — Pat Buchanan 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
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — John Paul Stevens 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
