Disobedience Quotes · Page 10

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

— C. S. Lewis

Expressions of disobedience naturally encourage terrorist organizations and motivate them to intensify their actions.

— Ariel Sharon

Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.

— Max Anders

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

I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.

— Grace Lee Boggs

“It is disobedience and not obedience that prompts us to select from the commands of Christ which ones we care to obey.”–1893,…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

— Swami Vivekananda

The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart,…

— Joan Baez

The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and…

— Gail Bradbrook

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has…

— Oscar Wilde

Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we…

— Oscar Romero

All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our…

— Doris Lessing

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to…

— Rosie O'Donnell

Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists,…

— Richard Grossman

One thing you can be assured of is that God has already worked out all the details of what your obedience will…

— Lysa TerKeurst

People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and…

— Anonymous

I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for…

— Patrick Stewart

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

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

— Sivananda

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he did conceive it.”

— Tanya Thompson

I didn't know how I was going to deal with 'Disobedience' because it takes place in such a specific and often secretive…

— Sebastian Lelio

Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

— George Muller

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

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a…

— William Kunstler

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

— Oriana Fallaci

A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been…

— Anonymous

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.

— Greta Thunburg

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

— Barbara Deming

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

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a…

— Alexander Hamilton