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
“Thoreau’s declaration in “Civil Disobedience”: “I heartily accept the motto—‘That government is best which governs least.” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law… — Hannah Arendt 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
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are… — Alexander Bickel Copy Share Image
If we remain in disobedience, knowing we are disobeying God, and not making an honest effort to grow spiritually, then we really… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
In the States we've had by far the largest demonstrations in the last few years. The largest civil disobedience actions about anything… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
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
I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to… — Marsha Blackburn Copy Share Image
I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to… — Osman Baydemir Copy Share Image
Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings… — Nikolai Berdyaev 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
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of… — John Tillotson 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
Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this… — Larry Klayman Copy Share Image
I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the… — Noam Chomsky 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
There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are… — Emma Sulkowicz Copy Share Image
“The greatest mistake a people can make is to hesitate even for a single second to overthrow a greedy government that cares… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“… for there are times when disobedience heals a very ailing part of the self. It relieves the human spirit’s distress at… — Malidoma Patrice Somé Copy Share Image
I'd been focused on trying to start civil disobedience since 2010. I'd tried many things and they hadn't worked. So I went… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in… — Cecily McMillan 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
“Among many other things, those dirtbag river runners uphold the virtue of disobedience: the principle that in a free society, defiance for… — Kevin Fedarko Copy Share Image
Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
