Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power. — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo 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
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. — John Stott Copy Share Image
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and… — Colman McCarthy 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
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt commit civil disobedience," There's no eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not." What you do is you face… — Allard K. Lowenstein Copy Share Image
So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
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