While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine… — John Woolman 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
It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator. — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the… — 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
when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking… — Helen Eustis Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take… — Anonymous 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
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
The curse of death for disobedience has been silenced because, for believers, there is no longer any Law we have to obey… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to God, and fighting with him is infidelity. — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
