We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.” — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. — 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
For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to… — Terry Tempest Williams 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
If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Someday there may be a cataclysmic reckoning, but we are paying for our sins right now. When God told Israel that disobedience… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Disobedience,' the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
“It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." - Oscar Wilde (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our… — John Milton 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
You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think. — Guillermo del Toro 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
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development… — Erich Fromm 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
I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for. — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting… — Cleve Jones 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
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“Little children, never be disobedient to those who are wiser than you for disobedience was the beginning of all the miseries and… — Yei Theodora Ozaki Copy Share Image
“disobedience, refusal to work, refusal to answer when spoken to, and a determination not to succeed.” — Harold Schechter Copy Share Image